Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.

It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Choice by the people themselves is not generally distinguished for its wisdom.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

Music furnishes a delightful recreation for the hours of respite from the cares of the day, and lasts us through life.

I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there shall be vacant lands in any part of America. When they get piled upon one another in large cities as in Europe, they will become corrupt as in Europe.

Should things go wrong at any time, the people will set them to rights by the peaceable exercise of their elective rights.