Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of man

If ever again our nation stumbles upon unfunded paper, it shall surely be like death to our body politic. This country will crash.

Your late purchase of an estate in the colony of Cayenne, with a view to emancipating the slaves on it, is a generous and noble proof of your humanity. Would to God a like spirit would diffuse itself generally into the minds of the people of this country; but I despair of seeing it.

I am again called upon by the voice of my country to execute the functions of its Chief Magistrate.

When in company, put not your hands to any part of the body, not usually discovered.

The great Searcher of human hearts is my witness, that I have no wish, which aspires beyond the humble and happy lot of living and dying a private citizen on my own farm.

In the appointments to the great offices of the government, my aim has been to combine geographical situation, and sometimes other considerations, with abilities and fitness of known characters.