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.

Extensive powers not exercised as far as was necessary have, I believe, scarcely ever failed to ruin the possessor.

There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity.

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.

Serious misfortunes, originating in misrepresentation, frequently flow and spread before they can be dissipated by truth.

Should the States reject this excellent Constitution, the probability is, an opportunity will never again offer to cancel another in peacethe next will be drawn in blood.

Laws or ordinances unobserved, or partially attended to, had better never have been made.