There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate.

I sincerely pray that all the members of the human family may, in the time prescribed by the Father of us all, find themselves securely established in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and happiness.

what are the objects of an useful American education? classical knowlege, modern languages & chiefly French, Spanish, & Italian; Mathematics; Natural philosophy; Natural History; Civil History; Ethics.

Should look forward to a time, and that not a distant one, when corruption in this, as in the country from which we derive our origin, will have seized the heads of government, and be spread by them through the body of the people; when they will purchase the voices of the people, and make them pay the price.

Most men die at age 25, but aren't buried until 70.

Let the farmer forevermore be honored in his calling; for they who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.