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"I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an "Honest Man."

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence."

"Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth."

"The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it."

"In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude."

"To be prepared for war is the most effectual means of preserving peace."

"I never mean, unless some peculiar circumstance should compel me to do it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law."

"Associate with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation, for it is better to be alone than in bad company."

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