I do not think it for the interest of the general government itself, & still less of the Union at large, that the state governments should be so little respected as they have been. however I dare say that in time all these as well as their central government, like the planets revolving round...

politics & party hatreds destroy the happiness of every being here. they seem, like salamanders, to consider fire as their element.

Dr Franklin, the greatest man & ornament of the age and country in which he lived.

I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our constitution; I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of our government to the genuine principles of it’s constitution; I mean an additional article taking from the federal government the power...

I am for encouraging the progress of science in all it’s branches

I join you therefore in branding as cowardly the idea that the human mind is incapable of further advances.

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...