Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the…

my prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man

Fidelity has enfranchised slaves, and adopted servants to be sons

Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.

Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.

The Country is both the Philosopher’s Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.

You are now fixed at the mercy of no governor that comes to make his fortune great; you shall be governed by laws of your own making and live a free, and if you will, a sober and industrious life. I shall not usurp the right of any, or …