Undertake not to teach your equal in the art himself professes; it savors arrogancy.

An aching head and trembling limbs, which are the inevitable effects of drinking, disincline the hands from work.

The signal instances of Providential goodness which we have experienced and which have now almost crowned our labors with complete success demand from us in a peculiar manner the warmest returns of gratitude and piety to the Supreme Author of all good.

Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths . . . ?

..avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts, which unavoidable wars may have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen, which we ourselves ought to bear.

... in the present State of America, our welfare and prosperity depend upon the cultivation of our lands and turning the produce of them to the best advantage.

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