never trust a man who won't accept that there is more than one way to spell a word Paraphrased

Laws abridging the natural right of the citizen should be restrained by rigorous constructions within their narrowest limits.

Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise.

I have lived temperately, eating little animal food, and that not as an aliment, so much as a condiment for the vegetables, which constitute my principal diet.

This ball of liberty, I believe most piously, is now so well in motion that it will roll round the globe. at least the enlightened part of it, for light & liberty go together.

Agreeable society is the first essential in constituting the happiness and of course the value of our existence.

Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But the enormities of the times in which I have lived, have forced me to take a part in resisting them, and to commit myself on the boisterous ocean of political passions.