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* He has left some beautiful Specimans of his
talents for drawing in water colors and crayons, finished
and unfinished, and had he studied painting as a profession
he might have arrived to high eminence--as he could
have done in any Science or Art that he would have
pursued unremittingly--but his thirst after knowledge
was great and perhaps too diffuse and general, but his
views were noble and enlarged, more so than of those,
a few excepted,with whom he generally associated; and when
explaining to some members of Congress his noble and splendid
conceptions of mind on various Subjects, they cooly answered him
Ah Doctor you have lived a hundred years too Soon!