I do not like [in the new Federal Constitution] the omission of a Bill of Rights providing clearly and without the aid of sophisms for... protection against standing armies

Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.

Do not neglect your music. It will be a companion which will sweeten many hours of life to you.

Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes of both.

Every man has a commission to admonish, exhort, convince another of error.

Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.

But under the beaming, constant and almost vertical sun of Virginia, shade is our Elysium. In the absence of this no beauty of the eye can be enjoyed.