Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . .

Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences.

State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules.

I cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.

Very many and very meritorious were the worthy patriots who assisted in bringing back our government to its republican tack. To preserve it in that, will require unremitting vigilance.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

Never was so much false arithmetic employed on any subject, as that which has been employed to persuade nations that it is in their interest to go to war.