What we learn to do, we learn by doing.

Bank-paper must be suppressed, and the circulating medium must be restored to the nation to whom it belongs.

Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise.

The metaphysical insanities of Athanasius, of Loyola, and of Calvin, are, to my understanding, mere lapses into polytheism, differing from paganism only by being more unintelligible.

A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity that ever were written.

I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.

Hemp is one of the greatest, most important substances of our nation