My manner of living is plain and I do not mean to be put out of it. A glass of wine and a bit of mutton are always ready.

The most enviable praise of all is just to be called an honest man.

One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts.

[T]here is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists . . . an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness.

If we are wise, let us prepare for the worst.

There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily

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.