Every constitution..., and every law, naturally expires at the end of 19 years [a generation]. If it be enforced longer, it is anact of force, and not of right.

We are here lounging our time away, doing nothing, and having nothing to do. It gives me great regret to be passing my time so uselessly when it could have been so importantly employed at home.

A mind always employed is always happy.

The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management.

The genuine and simple religion of Jesus will one day be restored: such as it was preached and practiced by Himself.

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.

A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.