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

If you are obliged to neglect any thing, let it be your chemistry. It is the least useful and the least amusing to a country gentleman of all the ordinary branches of science.

The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens.

The issue for patents for new discovers has given a spring to invention beyond my conception.

I endeavor to keep their attention fixed on the main objects of all science, the freedom & happiness of man.

Knowledge is power...knowled ge is safety...knowle dge is happiness.

Lay down true principles and adhere to them inflexibly. Do not be frightened into their surrender by the alarms of the timid, or the croakings of wealth against the ascendency of the people.