It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being. Religion is as necessary to reason, as reason is to religion.

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.

Influence is not government.

It is an old adage that honesty is the best policy-this applies to public as well as private life-to States as well as individuals.

An aching head and trembling limbs, which are the inevitable effects of drinking, disincline the hands from work.

I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the state, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party, generally.

We should on all Occasions avoid a general Action, or put anything to the Risque, unless compelled by a necessity, into which we ought never to be drawn.