No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or an economy of time more valuable.

The great mass of our citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

Submit your sentiments with diffidence. A dictatorial style, though it may carry conviction, is always accompanied with disgust.

I shall make it the most agreeable part of my duty to study merit, and reward the brave and deserving.

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distresses of every one, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse; remembering always the estimation of the widow's mite, but, that it is not every one who asketh that deserveth charity; all, however, are worthy of the inquiry, or the deserving may suffer.

Give not advice without being asked, and when desired, do it briefly.