A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

I only wish, while I am a servant of the public, to know the will of my masters, that I may govern my self accordingly.

We can not guarantee success, we can strive to deserve it.

The most enviable praise of all is just to be called an honest man.

I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its agriculture, its breed of useful animals, and other branches of a husbandman's cares.

Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause: And I was not without hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy of ⟨the present⟩ age would have put an effectual stop to contentions of this Kind.

Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment.