The United States enjoy a scene of prosperity and tranquility under the new government that could hardly have been hoped for.

Do not conceive that fine Clothes make fine Men, any more than fine feathers make fine Birds. A plain genteel dress is more admired and obtains more credit than lace and embroidery in the Eyes of the judicious and sensible.

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

I am principled against this kind of traffic in the human species . . . and to disperse the families I have an aversion.

The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create whatever the form of government, a real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position.

Unwilling am I, in the evening of a life nearly consumed in public cares, to quit a peaceful abode for an Ocean of difficulties

Example, whether it be good or bad, has a powerful influence.