Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable.

In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope they will make the strong and lasting impression I could wish; that they will control the usual current of the passions, or prevent our nation from running the course which has hitherto marked the destiny of nations. ... moderate the fury of party spirit, to warn against the mischiefs of foreign intrigue, to guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism; this hope will be a full recompense for the solicitude for your welfare, by which they have been dictated.

The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

[L]eave nothing to the uncertainty of procuring a warlike apparatus at the moment of public danger.

Europe has a set of primary interests, which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves, by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.