Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be ... The People cannot be safe without information. When the press is free, and every man is able to read, all is safe.

If by religion we are to understand sectarian dogmas, in which no two of them agree, then your exclamation on that hypothesis is just, "that this would be the best of worlds if there were no religion in it.

Heliotrope. To be sowed in the spring. A delicious flower, but I suspect it must be planted in boxes and kept in the house in the winter. The smell rewards the care.

The difficulty is no longer to find candidates for the offices, but offices for the candidates.