Necessity is our quickest excuse.

Were the offer made true, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask should be the privilege of an author, to correct, in a second edition, certain errors of the first.

The church, the state, and the poor, are 3 daughters which we should maintain, but not portion off.

I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning.

Here is my Creed. I believe in one God, the Creator of the Universe. That He governs it by His Providence. That He ought to be worshipped.

Those who are content have enough; those that complain, have too much.

I wish to live without committing any fault at any time.