It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself.

Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences.

A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither.

With your talents and industry, with science, and that steadfast honesty which eternally pursues right, regardless of consequences, you may promise yourself every thing-but health, without which there is no happiness. An attention to health then should take place of evey other object. The time necessary to secure this by active exercises, should be devoted to it in preference to every other pursuit.

My reason for fixing them in office for a term of years, rather than for life, was that they might have an idea that they were at a certain period to return into the mass of the people and become the governed instead of the governors which might still keep alive that regard to the public good that otherwise they might perhaps be induced by their independence to forget.