A strong body makes the mind strong.

No society is so precious as that of one’s own family.

in the spring he will attend your botanical course. his natural turn is very strongly to the objects of your two courses of lectures, and I hope you will have reason to be contended with his capacity & character.

One single object . . . [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.

The Governor would serve a five-year term and be ineligible for reelection.

It is so difficult to draw a clear line of separation between the abuse and the wholesome use of the press, that as yet we have found it better to trust the public judgment, rather than the magistrate, with the discrimination between truth and falsehood. And hitherto the public judgment has performed that office with wonderful correctness.

Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction.