Take care of the waste on the farm and turn it into useful channels’ should be the slogan of every farmer.

Let us impart all the blessings we possess, or ask for ourselves, to the whole family of mankind.

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.

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

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

Upon the decease [of] my wife, it is my Will and desire th[at] all the Slaves which I hold in [my] own right, shall receive their free[dom] . . . . The Negroes thus bound, are (by their Masters or Mistresses) to be taught to read and write; and to be brought up to some useful occupation, agreeably to the Laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, providing for the support of Orphan and other poor Children. And I do hereby expressly forbid the Sale, or transportation out of the said Commonwealth, of any Slave I may die possessed of, under any pretence whatsoever.

When in company, put not your hands to any part of the body, not usually discovered.