I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the state, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party, generally.

I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend's interest and inclination.

I never say anything of a man that I have the smallest scruple of saying to him.

There is a rank due to the United States among nations which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness.

Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that thou wilt keep the United States in thy holy protection.

We ought to deprecate the hazard attending ardent and susceptible minds, from being too strongly, and too early prepossessed in favor of other political systems, before they are capable of appreciating their own.

Went to church and fasted all day.