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

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

Great necessities call out great virtues.

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.

Great learning and superior abilities...will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.

My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.