Books may be classed from the Faculties of the mind

One had rather have no opinion than a false one.

The introduction of so powerful an agent as steam [to a carriage on wheels] will make a great change in the situation of man.

Trial by jury is part of that bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.

The way to have good and safe government is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to everyone exactly the functions in which he is competent ... It is by dividing and subdividing these Republics from the great national one down through all its subordinations until it ends in the administration of everyman's farm by himself, by placing under everyone what his own eye may superintend, that all will be done for the best.

The worst day in a man's life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing.

Heliotrope. To be sowed in the spring. A delicious flower, but I suspect it must be planted in boxes and kept in the house in the winter. The smell rewards the care.