The great cause which divides our countries is not to be decided by individual animosities. The harmony of private societies cannot weaken national efforts.

There are two amendments only which I am anxious for: 1. A bill of rights, which it is so much the interest of all to have that I conceive it must be yielded...2. The restoring of the principle of necessary rotation, particularly to the Senate and Presidency, but most of all to the last.

New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature.

From breakfast, or noon at the latest, to dinner, I am mostly on horseback, Attending to My Farm or other concerns, which I find healthful to my body, mind, and affairs.

Eternal Vigilance is the price of democracy.

The religion of Jesus is founded in the Unity of God, and this principle chiefly gave it triumph over the rabble of heathen gods then acknowledged. Thinking men of all nations rallied readily to the doctrine of one only God, and embraced it with the pure-morals which Jesus inculcated.

We sometimes from dreams pick up some hint worth improving by reflection.