Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do--then do it with all your strength.

When there is no vision, there is no hope.

The best means of forming a manly, virtuous, and happy people will be found in the right education of youth. Without this foundation, every other means, in my opinion, must fail.

I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend's interest and inclination.

To the efficacy and permanency of your union a government for the whole is indispensable.

But if in the pursuit of the means we should unfortunately stumble again on unfunded paper money or any similar species of fraud, we shall assuredly give a fatal stab to our national credit in its infancy. Paper money will invariably operate in the body of politics as spirit liquors on the human body. They prey on the vitals and ultimately destroy them. Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice.

Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.