Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty.

To rectify past blunders is impossible, but we might profit by the experience of them.

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

With a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you. I most devoutly wish that your later days may be as prosperous and happy as your former ones have been glorious and honorable. I cannot... I cannot come to each of you but shall feel obliged if each of you will come and take me by the hand.

[The spirit of party] opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions.

A people unused to restraint must be led, they will not be drove.

I am very glad to hear that the Gardener has saved so much of the St foin seed, & that of the India Hemp. Make the most you can of both, by sowing them again in drills... Let the ground be well prepared, and the Seed (St foin) be sown in April. The Hemp may be sown any where.