My brave fellows, let no sensation of satisfaction for the triumphs you have gained induce you to insult your fallen enemy. Let no shouting, no clamorous huzzaing increase their mortification. It is sufficient for us that we witness their humiliation. Posterity will huzza for us.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

I wish from my soul that the legislature of this State could see the policy of a gradual Abolition of Slavery.

If we cannot learn wisdom from experience, it is hard to say where it is to be found.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

It appears to me, then, little short of a miracle, that the Delegates from so many different States . . . should unite in forming a system of national Government, so little liable to well founded objections.

Without virtue, and without integrity, the finest talents and the most brilliant accomplishments can never gain the respect, and conciliate the esteem, of the truly valuable part of mankind.