Do not write me studied letters but ramble as you please.

[F]alsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.

You see I am an enthusiast on the subject of the arts.

With your talents and industry, with science, and that steadfast honesty which eternally pursues right, regardless of consequences, you may promise yourself every thing-but health, without which there is no happiness. An attention to health then should take place of evey other object. The time necessary to secure this by active exercises, should be devoted to it in preference to every other pursuit.

No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence.

We need a revolution every 20 years just to keep government honest.

The great cause which divides our countries is not to be decided by individual animosities. The harmony of private societies cannot weaken national efforts.