It is to be lamented that great characters are seldom without a blot.

Honesty will be found on every experiment, to be the best and only true policy; let us then as a Nation be just.

A part of the plan for creating discord, is, I perceive, to make me say things of others, and others of me, wch. have no foundation in truth. The first, in many instances I know to be the case; and the second I believe to be so; but truth or falsehood is immaterial to them, provided their objects are promoted.

My manner of living is plain and I do not mean to be put out of it. A glass of wine and a bit of mutton are always ready.

Be easy and condescending in your deportment to your officers, but not too familiar, lest you subject yourself to a want of respect, which is necessary to support a proper command.

May Heaven to this Union continue its beneficence

Undertake not to teach your equal in the art himself professes; it savors arrogancy.