What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.

The heart is long, very long in receiving the convictions that is forced upon it by reason... affection still lingers in the Bosom, even after esteem has taken its flight.

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.

History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.

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

These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.

My Dear Son... remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.