I go to the chair of government with feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.
Let thy carriage be such as becomes a man grave settled and attentive to that which is spoken. Contradict not, at every turn, what others say.
All I am I owe to my mother.
Every action in company ought to be with some sign of respect to those present.
A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.
It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.