I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.

That government that governs least governs best.

in the spring he will attend your botanical course. his natural turn is very strongly to the objects of your two courses of lectures, and I hope you will have reason to be contended with his capacity & character.

The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights

Every man has a commission to admonish, exhort, convince another of error.

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.

Truth between candid minds can never do harm.