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

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

The reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which are necessary for the peace and security of the community.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

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

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.

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