True friendship is a plant of slow growth.

I use no Porter ... in my family, but such as is made in America: both these articles may now be purchased of an excellent quality.

It is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man, that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of his friends, and that the most liberal professions of good will are very far from being the surest marks of it. I should be happy that my own experience had afforded fewer examples of the little dependence to be placed upon them.

I cannot tell a lie. I cut down the cherry tree.

Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.

I wish from my soul that the legislature of this State could see the policy of a gradual Abolition of Slavery.