During the course of administration, and in order to disturb it, the artillery of the press has been levelled against us, charged with whatsoever its licentiousness could devise or dare. These abuses of an institution so important to freedom and science are deeply to be regretted, inasmuch as they tend to lessen its usefulness and to sap its safety.

Take more pleasure in giving what is best to another than in having it for yourself, and then all the world will love you.

Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves.

One generation cannot bind another.

Creeds have been the bane of the Christian church ... made of Christendom a slaughter-house.

Hemp is of first necessity to the wealth & protection of the country.

There are other places at which ... the laws have said there shall be towns; but Nature has said there shall not, and they remain unworthy of enumeration.