If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption, indifferent and incapable of a wholesome care over so wide a spread of surface. This will not be borne, and you will have to choose between reform and revolution. If I know the spirit of this country, the one or the other is inevitable.

Tranquility is the old man's milk.

Paper money is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted.

Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.

Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to God alone.

If you are obliged to neglect any thing, let it be your chemistry. It is the least useful and the least amusing to a country gentleman of all the ordinary branches of science.

life is of no value but as it brings gratifications. among the most valuable of these is rational society. it informs the mind, sweetens the temper, chears our spirits, and promotes health.