The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these but with the people themselves, nor can they be safe with them without information. Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe.

Is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than that of face and stature.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion without imputing to them criminality.

I like to see the people awake and alert.

The art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest models for imitation; I should consider the speeches of Livy, Sallust, and Tacitus, as pre-eminent specimens of logic, taste, and that sententious brevity which, using not a word to spare, leaves not a moment for inattention to the hearer. Amplification is the vice of modern oratory.

Nothing is so disgusting to our sex as want of cleanliness and delicacy in yours.