The friendship I have conceived will not be impaired by absence; but it may be no unpleasing circumstance to brighten the chain by a renewal of the covenant.

The Army, as usual, are without pay; and a great part of the soldiery without shirts; and though the patience of them is equally threadbare, the States seem perfectly indifferent to their cries.

I was no party man myself, and the first wish of my heart was, if parties did exist, to reconcile them.

99% of failures come from people who make excuses.

There is an indissoluble union between a magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity.

Went to church and fasted all day.

This tribe of black gentry work more effectually against us, than the enemy's arms. They are a hundred times more dangerous to our liberties, and the great cause we are engaged in. It is much to be lamented that each State, long ere this, has not hunted them down as pests to society, and the greatest enemies we have to the happiness of America.