Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

Health is value greater than studying.

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

The general (federal) government will tend to monarchy, which will fortify itself from day to day, instead of working its own cures.

Men of quality are not threatened by women of equality

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?