Knowledge is power...knowled ge is safety...knowle dge is happiness.

Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.

The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of their rulers no such engine of oppression as a standing army. Their system was to make every man a soldier, and oblige him to repair to the standard of his country whenever that was reared. This made them invincible; and the same remedy will make us so.

A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity that ever were written.

The best (remedy) I can devise would be to give future commissions to (federal) judges for six years with a re-appointability by the President with the approbation of both houses. If this would not be independence enough, I know not what would be.

The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.

Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.