Be courteous to all, but personal with number of, and allow those couple be perfectly attempted ahead of you provide them with your self-assurance.

Religion is as necessary to reason as reason is to religion. The one cannot exist without the other. A reasoning being would lose his reason, in attempting to account for the great phenomena of nature, had he not a Supreme Being to refer to; and well has it been said, that if there had been no God, mankind would have been obliged to imagine one.

I have the consolation to believe, that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.

... the benefit arising from moderate use of strong Liquor have been experienced in all Armies, and are not to be disputed.

It is incumbent upon every person of every description to contribute to his country's welfare.

May 12-13: Sowed Hemp at Muddy hole by Swamp. August 7: Began to separate the Male from the Female at Do - rather too late.

The foundation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principle of private morality.