I would observe to you that what is called style in writing or speaking is formed very early in life while the imagination is warm, and impressions are permanent.

A system of general instruction, which shall reach every description of our citizens, from the richest to the poorest, as it was the earliest, so will it be the latest, of all the public concerns in which I shall permit myself to take an interest.

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.

I am a Christian in the only sense in which He wished anyone to be: sincerely attached to His doctrines in preference to all others.

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

The Giver of life gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness.