There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.

Without books, I would certainly die.

In our early struggles for liberty, religious freedom could not fail to become a primary object.

Drawing ... is an innocent & engaging amusement, often useful, and a qualification not to be neglected in one who is to become a mother & an instructor.

All persons shall have full and free liberty of religious opinion; nor shall any be compelled to frequent or maintain any religious institution.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

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.