Be not forward, but friendly and courteous; the first to salute, hear and answer; and be not pensive when it is time to converse.

Happy, thrice happy shall they be pronounced hereafter, who have contributed any thing, who have performed the meanest office in erecting this stupendous fabrick of Freedom and Empire on the broad basis of Independency; who have assisted in protecting the rights of humane nature and establishing an Asylum for the poor and oppressed of all nations and religions.

99% of failures come from people who make excuses.

One of George Washington's main concerns was to make sure that his soldiers had adequate supplies of meat: A part of the army has been a week without any kind of flesh, and the rest three or four days. Naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their suffering to a general mutiny and dispersion.

It is impossible to account for the creation of the universe without the agency of a Supreme Being.

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

It is absolutely necessary... for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.