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

To the efficacy and permanency of your union a government for the whole is indispensable.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair. The event is in the hand of God.

What was done with the seed saved from the India Hemp last summer? It ought, all of it, to have been sewn again; that not only a stock of seed sufficient for my own purposes might have been raised, but to have disseminated the seed to others; as it is more valuable than the common Hemp.

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

A good moral character is the first essential. It is highly important not only to be learned but to be virtuous.