Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable for, not the rightness, but the uprightness of the decision

The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, in-as-much as he who knows nothing is nearer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehood and errors.

There is no habit you will value so much as that of walking far without fatigue.

But though an old man, I am but a young gardener.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.-Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them, if we basely entail hereditary bondage upon them.