Uniformity in the currency, weights, and measures of the United States is an object of great importance, and will, I am persuaded, be duly attended to.

Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by difference of sentiment in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be deprecated.

Went to church and fasted all day.

I dare say the men would fight very well if properly officered, although they are an exceedingly dirty and nasty people.

[T]here is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists . . . an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness.

Precedents are dangerous things; let the rein of government then be braced and held with a steady hand.

The Arts and Sciences, essential to the prosperity of the State and to the ornament of human life, have a primary claim to the encouragement of every lover of his country and mankind.