Dinsmore alone made & put up the semicircular arch of the Cabinet (wide) in 10. days.

a very coarse & uninformed carpenter is making mine, who never heard of a dome before. it is the only way of framing a dome so as to give it’s hollow to the height of the room.

we wish to establish in the upper & healthier country, & more centrally for the state an University on a plan so broad & liberal & modern, as to be worth patronising with the public support, and be a temptation to the youth of other states to come, and drink of the cup of knolege ...

I had, at an early period of life, read a good deal on the subject, & common placed what I read.

my nailery flourished, and still flourishes greatly, employing 16. boys at a clear profit of about 4. to 500£ annually.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. during the whole of the last war, which was trying enough, I never deserted a friend because he had taken an opposite side; and those of my own state who joined the British...

I have not observed men’s honesty to increase with their riches.

the greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add an useful plant to it’s culture; especially a bread grain.