We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that 'except the Lord build the House, they labor in vain that build it' I firmly believe this; by our partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a by word down to future ages.

There never was a good knife made of bad steel.

To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.

I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power. I am naturally very jealous for the rights and liberties of my country, and the least encroachment of those invaluable privileges is apt to make my blood boil.

'Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury.

A man separated from his reflective belt is no man at all.

E'er you remark another's sin, bid your own conscience look within.