I do not know whether you are fond of chemical reading. There are some things in this science worth reading.

The patient, treated on the fashionable theory, sometimes gets well in spite of the medicine.

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.

the study of the law is useful in a variety of points of view. it qualifies a man to be useful to himself, to his neighbors, & to the public.

I do not believe war the most certain means of enforcing principles. Those peaceable coercions which are in the power of every nation, if undertaken in concert and in time of peace, are more likely to produce the desired effect.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

Cultivators of the earth are the most virtuous and independent citizens.