Anarchy [is] necessarily consequent to inefficiency.

I do most anxiously wish to see the highest degrees of education given to the higher degrees of genius and to all degrees of it, so much as may enable them to read and understand what is going on in the world and to keep their part of it going on right; for nothing can keep it right but their own vigilant and distrustful superintendence.

All the States but our own are sensible that knowlege is power.

Revenue on the consumption of foreign articles is paid cheerfully by those who can afford to add foreign luxuries to domestic comforts.

Lay down true principles and adhere to them inflexibly. Do not be frightened into their surrender by the alarms of the timid, or the croakings of wealth against the ascendency of the people.

Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.