Trial by jury is part of that bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.

To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful, I should answer, "by restraining it to true facts & sound principles only." Yet I fear such a paper would find few subscribers. It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of it's benefits, than is done by it's abandoned prostitution to falsehood.

I enclose to you a copy of the declaration of independence as agreed to by the House, and also, as originally framed. You will judge whether it is the better or worse for the Critics.

A single good government is a blessing to the whole earth.

Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind.

Gouverneur Morris had often told me that General Washington believed no more of that system (Christianity) than did he himself.

All things here appear to me to trudge on in one and the same round: we rise in the morning that we may eat breakfast, dinner andsupper and to bed again that we may get up the next morning and do the same: so that you never saw two peas more alike than our yesterday and to-day.