A candle loses nothing when it lights another candle.

The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys.

Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences.

Above all I hope that the education of the common people will be attended to so they won't forget the basic principles of freedom.

no people can be both ignorant and free.

I have wished to see chemistry applied to domestic objects, to malting, for instance, brewing, making cider, to fermentation and distillation generally, to the making of bread, butter, cheese, soap, to the incubation of eggs, &c.

Certain teachings in the Bible are as diamonds in a dung-heap.