Peace with all the world, is my sincere wish.

I have never been a communicant.

We ought to deprecate the hazard attending ardent and susceptible minds, from being too strongly, and too early prepossessed in favor of other political systems, before they are capable of appreciating their own.

The Constitution that we have is an excellent one, if we can keep it where it is.

In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars.

Be easy and condescending in your deportment to your officers, but not too familiar, lest you subject yourself to a want of respect, which is necessary to support a proper command.

I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.