Your proposal raises the greatest mischief that can befall my country. You could not have found a person to whom your schemes are more disagreeable. Let me conjure you then, if you have any regard for your country, concern for your self or posterity, or respect for me, to banish these thoughts from your mind, never communicate, as from yourself, or anyone else, a sentiment of the like nature.

The blessed Religion revealed in the word of God will remain an eternal and awful monument to prove that the best Institution may be abused by human depravity; and that they may even, in some instances be made subservient to the vilest purposes.

I am just going. Have me decently buried; and do not let my body be put into the Vault in less than three days after I am dead.... Tis well.

A pack of jackasses led by a lion is superior to a pack of lions led by a jackass.

We must take care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive posture.

Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do--then do it with all your strength.

Sleep not when others speak, sit not when others stand, speak not when you should hold your peace, walk not when others stop.