Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?

I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it's laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.

When you are doubting whether a thing is worth the trouble of going to see, recollect that you will never again be so near it. You may repent not having seen it, but you can never repent having seen it.

People generally have more feeling for canals and roads than education. However, I hope we can advance them with equal pace.

You see I am an enthusiast on the subject of the arts.

Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.