I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its agriculture, its breed of useful animals, and other branches of a husbandman's cares.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

Speak seldom, but to important subjects, except such as particularly relate to your constituents, and, in the former case, make yourself perfectly master of the subject.

It appears to me, then, little short of a miracle, that the Delegates from so many different States . . . should unite in forming a system of national Government, so little liable to well founded objections.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

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

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being. Religion is as necessary to reason, as reason is to religion.