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

Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.

The dead should not rule the living

If our legislature does not heartily push our University [of Virginia] we must send our children for education to Kentucky [Transylvania College] or Cambridge [Harvard College]. The latter will return them to us as fanatics and tories, the former will keep them to add to their population.

Men are disposed to live honestly, if the means of doing so are open to them.

It is while we are young that the habit of industry is formed. If not then, it never is afterwards. The fortune of our lives therefore depends on employing well the short period of our youth.

To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse.