Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

Religious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose.

Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of wisdom. Let it be our endeavor to merit the character of a just nation.

music, drawing, books, invention & exercise will be so many resources to you against ennui.

I could say much about politics, our only entertainment here, but you would not care a fig about that.

The monopoly of a single bank is certainly an evil. The multiplication of them was intended to cure it; but it multiplied an influence of the same character with the first, and completed the supplanting the precious metals by a paper circulation. Between such parties the less we meddle the better.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.