The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.

But with respect to future debt; would it not be wise and just for that nation to declare in the constitution they are forming that neither the legislature, nor the nation itself can validly contract more debt, than they may pay within their own age, or within the term of 19 years.

I considered 4 of these bills [of the revised code of Virginia] as forming a system by which every fibre would be eradicated of antient or future aristocracy; and a foundation laid for a government truly republican.

I would observe to you that what is called style in writing or speaking is formed very early in life while the imagination is warm, and impressions are permanent.

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

I never saw an instance of one or two disputants convincing the other by argument.

The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.