One had rather have no opinion than a false one.

preach, my dear Sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish & improve the law for educating the common people.

No knowledge can be more satisfactory to a man than that of his own frame, its parts, their functions and actions.

The religion of Jesus is founded in the Unity of God, and this principle chiefly gave it triumph over the rabble of heathen gods then acknowledged. Thinking men of all nations rallied readily to the doctrine of one only God, and embraced it with the pure-morals which Jesus inculcated.

Convinced that the republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind, my prayers & efforts shall be cordially distributed to the support of that we have so happily established. It is indeed an animating thought that, while we are securing the rights of ourselves & our posterity, we are pointing out the way to struggling nations who wish, like us, to emerge from their tyrannies also. Heaven help their struggles, and lead them, as it has done us, triumphantly thro' them.

There is no habit you will value so much as that of walking far without fatigue.

Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.