If your letters are as long as the bible, they will appear short to me. Only let them be brim full of affection.

I shall rejoin myself to my native country, with new attachments, and with exaggerated esteem for its advantages; for though there is less wealth there, there is more freedom, more ease, and less misery.

If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.

The plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. Its effect is really like sorcery.

I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature.

...We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans.

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.