preach, my dear Sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish & improve the law for educating the common people.

Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.

If, in my retirement to the humble station of a private citizen, I am accompanied with the esteem and approbation of my fellow citizens, trophies obtained by the bloodstained steel, or the tattered flags of the tented field, will never be envied. The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

We must use a good deal of economy in our wood, never cutting down new, where we can make the old do.

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.

Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.

I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucydides, for Newton and Euclid; and I find myself much the happier.