Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country. - March 15, 1783

Should any American soldier be so base and infamous as to injure any Canadian or Indian in his person or property, I do most earnestly enjoin you to bring him to such severe and exemplary punishment, as the enormity of the crime may require. Should it extend to death itself, it shall not be disproportioned to its guilt, at such a time and in such a cause.

I was summoned by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love.

A man's intentions should be allowed in some respects to plead for his actions.

Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.

Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy.

The business being thus closed . . . dined together and took a cordial leave of each other After which I returned to my lodgings, did some business with and received the papers from the secretary of the Convention, and retired to meditate on the momentous work which had been executed.