With your talents and industry, with science, and that steadfast honesty which eternally pursues right, regardless of consequences, you may promise yourself every thing-but health, without which there is no happiness. An attention to health then should take place of evey other object. The time necessary to secure this by active exercises, should be devoted to it in preference to every other pursuit.

I will not believe our labors are lost. I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on a steady advance.

I hope that we have not labored in vain, and that our experiment will still prove that men can be governed by reason.

One imputation in particular has been repeated till it seems as if some at least believed it: that I am an enemy to commerce. They admit me a friend of agriculture, and suppose me an enemy to the only means of disposing of its produce.

the boys of the rising generation are to be the men of the next, and the sole guardians of the principles we deliver over to them.

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

Education is here placed among the articles of public care, not that it would be proposed to take its ordinary branches out of the hands of private enterprise, which manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal, but a public institution can alone supply those sciences which, though rarely called for, are yet necessary to complete the circle, all the parts of which contribute to the improvement of the country, and some of them to its preservation.