A strong body makes the mind strong.

Difference of opinion leads to inquiry, and inquiry to the truth.

Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of wisdom. Let it be our endeavor to merit the character of a just nation.

I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the elegant arts; but the useful ones can thrive elsewhere; and less perfection in the others, with more health, virtue and freedom, would be my choice.

I have overlived the generation with which mutual labors & perils begat mutual confidence and influence.

Although we are free by the law, we are not so in practice.

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.