While prudence will endeavor to avoid this issue of war, bravery will prepare to meet it.

The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens.

Excessive taxation . . . will carry reason & reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election.

And say, finally, whether peace is best preserved by giving energy to the government or information to the people. This last is the most legitimate engine of government. Educate and inform the whole mass of people. Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve them. And it requires no very high degree of education to convince them of this. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

While learning the language in France a young man's morals, health and fortune are more irresistibly endangered than in any country of the universe.

As you are entered with the class of Nat. philosophy, give to it the hours of lecture, but devote all your other time to Mathematics, avoiding company as the bane of all progress.

To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try.