An honest heart being the first blessing, a knowing head is the second.

The introduction of so powerful an agent as steam [to a carriage on wheels] will make a great change in the situation of man.

Do not write me studied letters but ramble as you please.

I have examined all of the known superstitions of the world and i do not find our superstitions of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all founded on fables and mythology. Christianity has made one-half of the world fools and the other half Hypocrites

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.

ours are the only farmers who can read Homer

The Earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in.