One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it.

We sometimes from dreams pick up some hint worth improving by reflection.

Every people may establish what form of government they please, and change it as they please, the will of the nation being the only thing essential.

I leave the world and its affairs to the young and energetic, and resign myself to their care, of whom I have endeavored to take care when young.

Paul was the first corrupter of the doctrines of Jesus.

in the spring he will attend your botanical course. his natural turn is very strongly to the objects of your two courses of lectures, and I hope you will have reason to be contended with his capacity & character.

I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our fathers, as Israel of old, from their native land and planted them in a country flowing with all the necessaries of comforts of life.