The suppression of unnecessary offices, of useless establishments and expenses enabled us to discontinue our internal taxes. These covering our land with officers, and opening our doors to their intrusions, had already begun that process of domiciliary vexation which, once entered, is scarcely to be restrained from reaching successively every article of produce and property.

A judiciary independent of a king or executive alone, is a good thing; but independence of the will of the nation is a solecism, at least in a republican government.

Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical.

From candlelight to early bedtime, I read.

People generally have more feeling for canals and roads than education. However, I hope we can advance them with equal pace.

Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself.

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