For St. Paul only says that it is better to be married than to burn. Now I presume that if that apostle had known that providence would at an after day be so kind to any particular set of people as to furnish them with other means of extinguishing their fire than those of matrimony, he would have earnestly recmmended them to their practice.

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

Freedom [is] the first-born daughter of science

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.

The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys.

Not for ourselves alone, but for all humanity... Let us hasten to find the path that leads to liberty, safety, and peace for everyone.