The Governor would serve a five-year term and be ineligible for reelection.

I do verily believe that a single, consolidated government would become the most corrupt government on the earth.

Man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees others do.

I sincerely congratulate you on the arrival of the mockingbird. Learn all the children to venerate it as a superior being in the form of a bird, or as a being which will haunt them if any harm is done to itself or its eggs.

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.

If you are obliged to neglect any thing, let it be your chemistry. It is the least useful and the least amusing to a country gentleman of all the ordinary branches of science.

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.