The signal instances of Providential goodness which we have experienced and which have now almost crowned our labors with complete success demand from us in a peculiar manner the warmest returns of gratitude and piety to the Supreme Author of all good.

The fundamental principle of our constitution ... enjoins the sense of command, duty that the will of the majority shall prevail.

Alas! Our dancing days are no more. We wish, however, all those who have a relish for so agreeable and innocent an amusement all the pleasure the season will afford them.

Always speak the truth.

Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.

Your late purchase of an estate in the colony of Cayenne, with a view to emancipating the slaves on it, is a generous and noble proof of your humanity. Would to God a like spirit would diffuse itself generally into the minds of the people of this country; but I despair of seeing it.

To please everybody is impossible; were I to undertake it, I should probably please nobody.