Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.

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.

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

The Army, as usual, are without pay; and a great part of the soldiery without shirts; and though the patience of them is equally threadbare, the States seem perfectly indifferent to their cries.

While I reiterate the professions of my dependence upon Heaven... I will observe that... no man who is profligate in his morals... can possibly be a true Christian.

To rectify past blunders is impossible, but we might profit by the experience of them.

Though, when a people shall have become incapable of governing themselves and fit for a master, it is of little consequence from what quarter he comes.