It is an old adage that honesty is the best policy-this applies to public as well as private life-to States as well as individuals.

I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.

Went to church and fasted all day.

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

It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair. The event is in the hand of God.

I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have you, and the State over which you preside, in his holy protection... and finally, that he would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that charity, humility, and pacifick temper of the mind, which were the characteristicks of the divine Author of our blessed religion ; without an humble imitation of whose example, in these things, we can never hope to be a happy Nation.

Be not forward, but friendly and courteous; the first to salute, hear and answer; and be not pensive when it is time to converse.