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.

Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

A system of general instruction, which shall reach every description of our citizens, from the richest to the poorest, as it was the earliest, so will it be the latest, of all the public concerns in which I shall permit myself to take an interest.

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

Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps.

Establish the eternal truth that acquiescence under insult is not the way to escape war.