All I am I owe to my mother.

While just government protects all in their religious rites, true religion affords government its surest support.

The advancement of agriculture, commerce and manufactures, by all proper means, will not, I trust, need recommendation. But I cannot forbear intimating to you the expediency of giving effectual encouragement as well to the introduction of new and useful inventions from abroad, as to the exertions of skill and genius in producing them at home.

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

Even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror.

There is an indissoluble union between a magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity.

There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.