Ministers of the Gospel are excluded [from serving as Visitors of the county Elementary Schools] to avoid jealousy from the other sects, were the public education committed to the ministers of a particular one; and with more reason than in the case of their exclusion from the legislative and executive functions.

Unmerited abuse wounds, while unmerited praise has not the power to heal.

I may err in my measures, but never shall deflect from the intention to fortify the public liberty by every possible means, and to put it out of the power of the few to riot on the labors of the many.

The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents.

I have come to a resolution myself as I hope every good citizen will, never again to purchase any article of foreign manufacture which can be had of American make, be the difference of price what it may.

The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.