I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

I agree with you that it is the duty of every good citizen to use all the opportunities, which occur to him, for preserving documents relating to the history of our country.

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

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 are other places at which ... the laws have said there shall be towns; but Nature has said there shall not, and they remain unworthy of enumeration.

A good neighbor is a very desireable thing.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.