All the States but our own are sensible that knowlege is power.

My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

The execution of the laws is more important than the making of them.

I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.

Of publishing a book on religion, my dear sir, I never had an idea. I should as soon think of writing for the reformation of Bedlam, as of the world of religious sects. Of these there must be, at least, ten thousand, every individual of every one of which believes all wrong but his own.

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.