I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty.

in the spring he will attend your botanical course. his natural turn is very strongly to the objects of your two courses of lectures, and I hope you will have reason to be contended with his capacity & character.

An enlightened citizenry is indispensable for the proper functioning of a republic. Self-government is not possible unless the citizens are educated sufficiently to enable them to exercise oversight. It is therefore imperative that the nation see to it that a suitable education be provided for all its citizens.

The contest is not between us and them, but between good and evil, and if those who would fight evil adopt the ways of evil, evil wins.

Men as well as rivers grow crooked by following the path of least resistance.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

The man who stops advertising to save money is like the man who stops the clock to save time.