Without health there is no happiness. An attention to health, then, should take the place of every other object.

The past stays put, I just keep moving farther away from it.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

The elective franchise, if guarded as the ark of our safety, will peaceably dissipate all combinations to subvert a Constitution, dictated by the wisdom, and resting on the will of the people.

The benefit of even limited monopolies is too doubtful, to be opposed to that of their general suppression.

I endeavor to keep their attention fixed on the main objects of all science, the freedom & happiness of man.

Let the farmer forevermore be honored in his calling; for they who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.