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.

My death has not yet quite arrived, but it is near and inevitable as night follows day.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

To place any dependence upon militia, is, assuredly, resting upon a broken staff.

I never say anything of a man that I have the smallest scruple of saying to him.

It's only natural for unbridled partisanship, unrestrained by allegiance to a greater cause, to lead to chaos.

Excessive partiality for one foreign nation and excessive dislike of another cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side, and serve to veil and even second the arts of influence on the other. Real patriots who may resist the intrigues of the favorite are liable to become suspected and odious, while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people, to surrender their interests.