The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false step may prove irretrievable to his future usefulness.

Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.

A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God. Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?

When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}

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

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

A people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.