An acre of the best ground for hemp, is to be selected and sewn in hemp and be kept for a permanent hemp patch.

My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

There is no habit you will value so much as that of walking far without fatigue.

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.

I do not agree that an age of pleasure is no compensation for a moment of pain.

I set out on this ground which I suppose to be self-evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living. . . . We seem not to perceive that, by the law of nature, one generation is to another as one independent nation is to another. . . . The earth belongs always to the living generations.

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.