When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what

These are 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.

I acknowledge myself a unitarian

These are the times when a genius wants to live.

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

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

The house shakes...with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.