True friendship is a plant of slow growth.

The due administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good government, I have considered the first arrangement of the judicial department as essential to the happiness of the country, and to the stability of its political system.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

The Army, as usual, are without pay; and a great part of the soldiery without shirts; and though the patience of them is equally threadbare, the States seem perfectly indifferent to their cries.

Sleep not when others speak, sit not when others stand, speak not when you should hold your peace, walk not when others stop.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

Serious misfortunes, originating in misrepresentation, frequently flow and spread before they can be dissipated by truth.