Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

Genuine simplicity of heart is a healing and cementing principle.

Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.

When slavery is established in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom.

My good friends, while I do most earnestly recommend you to take care of your health and safety, as things most precious to us, I would not have that care degenerate into an effeminate and over-curious attention, which is always disgraceful to a man's self, and often troublesome to others.

Next to love, Sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.

Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young peoples, and I will tell you what is to be the character of the next generation.