For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another might be lost, until the whole of things will vanish by piecemeal.
Thomas JeffersonSensibility of mind is indeed the parent of every virtue, but it is the parent of much misery, too.
Thomas JeffersonI am anxious to see the doctrine of one god commenced in our state. But the population of my neighborhood is too slender, and is too much divided into other sects to maintain any one preacher well. I must therefore be contented to be an Unitarian by myself, although I know there are many around me who would become so, if once they could hear the questions fairly stated.
Thomas Jefferson