If you can't sent money, send tobacco.

Since the death of my father four years ago, our lives have become difficult, and I must help my family.

The most enviable praise of all is just to be called an honest man.

A people... who are possessed of the spirit of commerce, who see and who will pursue their advantages may achieve almost anything.

Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?

The finite mind of man can never grasp the mysteries of the infinite. It is the highest wisdom, as it is our great happiness, to accept our limitations, to use what we have, and leave the rest to God.

Passionate attachment to another nation produces a variety of evils... the illusion of common interests where no real common interests exist; adopting the enmities of the other; and participation in the quarrels and wars of the other without any justification. Still another evil is that such a passionate attachment gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens the facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country.