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

The attempt of Lavoisier to reform chemical nomenclature is premature. One single experiment may destroy the whole filiation of his terms; and his string of sulphates, sulphites, and sulphures, may have served no end than to have retarded the progress of science by a jargon, from the confusion of which time will be requisite to extricate us.

The only true corrective of Constitutional abuses is education.

Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself.

I am already sensible of decay in the power of walking, and find my memory not so faithful as it used to be. This may be partly owing to the incessant current of new matter flowing constantly through it; but I ascribe to years their share in it also.

I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our forefathers, as Israel of old.

I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion without imputing to them criminality.