Not less than two hours a day should be devoded to exercise, and weather should be little regarded. A person not sick will not be injured by getting wet. It is but taking a cold bath, which never gives a cold to any one. Brute animals are the most healthy, and they are exposed to all weather, and of men, those are healthiest who are the most exposed.

A good neighbor is a very desireable thing.

That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone.

It is better to tolerate the rare instance of a parent refusing to let his child be educated, than to shock the common feelings and ideas by forcible asportation and education of the infant against the will of the father.

I am satisfied, and sufficiently occupied with the things which are, without tormenting or troubling myself about those which may indeed be, but of which I have no evidence.

My general plan would be to make the States one as to everything connected with foreign nations and several as to everything purely domestic.

The genuine and simple religion of Jesus will one day be restored: such as it was preached and practiced by Himself.