it is really an assembly of demi-gods.

Agriculture ... is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals & happiness.

with all the defects of our constitutions, whether general or particular, the comparison of our governments with those of Europe are like a comparison of heaven & hell. England, like the earth, may be allowed to take the intermediate station.

I am as happy no where else & in no other society, & all my wishes end, where I hope my days will end, at Monticello. too many scenes of happiness mingle themselves with all the recollections of my native woods & feilds, to suffer them to be supplanted in my affection by any other.

I congratulate you, my dear friend, on the law of your state for suspending the importation of slaves, and for the glory you have justly acquired by endeavoring to prevent it for ever. this abomination must have an end, and there is a superior bench reserved in heaven for those who hasten it.

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

the splendor of their shops, which is all that is worth seeing in London

we promise ourselves good from the Convention holding at Philadelphia. it consists of the ablest men in America.

I am impatient to learn your sentiments on the late troubles in the Eastern states. so far as I have yet seen, they do not appear to threaten serious consequences. those states have suffered by the stoppage of the channels of their commerce, which have not yet found other issues. this must render...

ours are the only farmers who can read Homer