Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

It appears to me, then, little short of a miracle, that the Delegates from so many different States . . . should unite in forming a system of national Government, so little liable to well founded objections.

... in the present State of America, our welfare and prosperity depend upon the cultivation of our lands and turning the produce of them to the best advantage.

To please everybody is impossible; were I to undertake it, I should probably please nobody.

Be not forward, but friendly and courteous; the first to salute, hear and answer; and be not pensive when it is time to converse.

One of the difficulties in bringing about change in an organization is that you must do so through the persons who have been most successful in that organization, no matter how faulty the system or the organization is. To such persons, you see, it is the best of all possible organizations, because look who was selected by it ad look who succeeded most in it. Yet, these are the very people through whom we must bring about improvements.

Providence has at all times been my only dependence, for all other resources seemed to have failed us.