...in war, they will kill some of us; we shall destroy all of them

A room without books is like a life without meaning.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Our legislators are not sufficiently apprized of the rightful limits of their power; that their true office is to declare and enforce only our natural rights and duties, and to take none of them from us.

It can never be too often repeated, that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest, and ourselves united.

music, drawing, books, invention & exercise will be so many resources to you against ennui.

The failure of one thing is repaired by the success of another.