I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

The religion of Jesus is founded in the Unity of God, and this principle chiefly gave it triumph over the rabble of heathen gods then acknowledged. Thinking men of all nations rallied readily to the doctrine of one only God, and embraced it with the pure-morals which Jesus inculcated.

A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.

I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of science, useful at this day, may be taught in it's highest degrees.

By... [selecting] the youths of genius from among the classes of the poor, we hope to avail the State of those talents which nature has sown as liberally among the poor as the rich, but which perish without use if not sought for and cultivated.

I believe the states can best govern our home concerns, and the general government our foreign ones.