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.

music, drawing, books, invention & exercise will be so many resources to you against ennui.

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

I am never happier than when I am performing good offices for good people; and the most friendly office one can perform is to make worthy characters acquainted with one another.

besides the comfort of knowlege, every science is auxiliary to every other.

What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment or death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment be deaf to all those motives whose power supported him thro’ his trial, and inflict on his fellow men a bondage,...