To persevere in one's duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny

Undertake not to teach your equal in the art himself professes; it savors arrogancy.

While we are contending for our own liberty, we should be very cautious not to violate the conscience of others, ever considering that God alone is the judge of the hearts of men, and to Him only in this case are they answerable.

The consideration that human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected will always continue to prompt me to promote the former by inculcating the practice of the latter.

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

If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.

To contract new debts is not the way to pay old ones.