Hindsight is an exact science. Hold fast to your dreams, for it dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

I sincerely wish you may find it convenient to come here. the pleasure of the trip will be less than you expect, but the utility greater. it will make you adore your own country, it's soil, it's climate, it's equality, liberty, laws, people & manners. my god! how little do my countrymen know.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Government is being founded on opinion, the opinion of the public, even when it is wrong, ought to be respected to a certain degree.

Heliotrope. To be sowed in the spring. A delicious flower, but I suspect it must be planted in boxes and kept in the house in the winter. The smell rewards the care.

Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities, are incapable of self-government.

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.