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.

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

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.

Have the strength to be an honest person.

In disputes, be not so desirous to overcome as to not give liberty to each one to deliver his opinion and submit to the judgment of the major part, especially if they are judges of the dispute.

Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country. - March 15, 1783