I die hard but am not afraid to go.

I have never been a communicant.

May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us in all our several vocations useful here, and in His own due time and way everlastingly happy.

Always speak the truth.

[T]here is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists . . . an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness.

The duty of holding a Neutral conduct may be inferred, without any thing more, from the obligation which justice and humanity impose on every nation, in cases in which it is free to act, to maintain inviolate the relations of Peace and amity toward other Nations.

Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of man