To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.

May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.

posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.

Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.

If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.

But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.