Let every one ascertain his special business and calling, and then stick to it if he wants to be successful.

Here you would know, and enjoy, what prosperity will way of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.

There is no gains without pain.

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

He that's content hath enough.

Great talkers are little doers.

Since they are our right, let us be vigilant to preserve them uninfringed, and free from encroachments. If animosities arise, and we should be obliged to resort to party, let each of us range himself on the side which unfurls the ensigns of public good. Faction will then vanish, which, if not timely suppressed, may overturn the balance, the palladium of liberty, and crush us under its ruins.