To the efficacy and permanency of your union a government for the whole is indispensable.

I use no Porter ... in my family, but such as is made in America: both these articles may now be purchased of an excellent quality.

I have the consolation to believe, that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

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

The finite mind of man can never grasp the mysteries of the infinite. It is the highest wisdom, as it is our great happiness, to accept our limitations, to use what we have, and leave the rest to God.

We should amuse our evening hours of life in cultivating the tender plants, and bringing them to perfection, before they are transplanted to a happier clime.