Everyone must act according to the dictates of his own reason.

My heart trembles when I reflect that God is just

I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucydides, for Newton and Euclid; and I find myself much the happier.

I sincerely wish you may find it convenient to come here. the pleasure of the trip will be less than you expect, but the utility greater. it will make you adore your own country, it's soil, it's climate, it's equality, liberty, laws, people & manners. my god! how little do my countrymen know.

I was dupedby the Secretary of the treasury [Alexander Hamilton], and made a fool for forwarding his schemes, not then sufficiently understood by me; and of all the errors of my political life, this has occasioned the deepest regret.

The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It had only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican.

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