It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

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.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

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.

One insult pocketed soon produces another.

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

Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves.