I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural.

Communities should be planned with an eye to the effect on the human spirit of being continually surrounded by a maximum of beauty.

The patriot, like the Christian, must learn to bear revilings and persecutions as a part of his duty; and in proportion as the trial is severe, firmness under it becomes more requisite and praiseworthy. It requires, indeed, self-command. But that will be fortified in proportion as the calls for its exercise are repeated.

But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from by those who professed to be his special servants, and perverted into an engine for enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing their oppressors in Church and State.

They are exactly the persons who are to succeed to the government of our country and to rule its future enmities, its friendships and fortunes.

Speaking one day to Monsieur de Buffon, on the present ardor of chemical inquiry, he affected to consider chemistry but as cookery, and to place the toils of the laboratory on the footing with those of the kitchen. I think it, on the contrary, among the most useful of sciences, and big with future discoveries for the utility and safety of the human race.

Do not neglect your music. It will be a companion which will sweeten many hours of life to you.