The art of printing secures us against the retrogradation of reason and information.

Lake George is without comparison, the most beautiful water I ever saw; formed by a contour of mountains into a basin... finely interspersed with islands, its water limpid as crystal, and the mountain sides covered with rich groves... down to the water-edge: here and there precipices of rock to checker the scene and save it from monotony.

The only true corrective of Constitutional abuses is education.

Never was so much false arithmetic employed on any subject, as that which has been employed to persuade nations that it is in their interest to go to war.

[The people] are in truth the only legitimate proprietors of the soil and government.

Those who bear equally the burthens of Government should equally participate of its benefits.

The greatest calamity which could befall us would be submission to a government of unlimited powers.