Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society.

The best way to have peace is to always be prepared to fight a way.

I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend's interest and inclination.

The great mass of our citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.

I regret exceedingly that the disputes between the protestants and Roman Catholics should be carried to the serious alarming height mentioned in your letters. Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause; and I was not without hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy of the present age would have put an effectual stop to contentions of this kind.

Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society.

I am not only retired from all public employments, but I am retiring within myself, and shall be able to view the solitary walk and tread the paths of private life with heartfelt satisfaction.