Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.

Genius is sorrow's child.

The furnace of affliction produces refinement in states as well as individuals. And the new Governments we are assuming in every part will require a purification from our vices, and an augmentation of our virtues, or there will be no blessings.

In every society where property exists there will ever be a struggle between rich and poor. Mixed in one assembly, equal laws can never be expected; they will either be made by the member to plunder the few who are rich, or by the influence to fleece the many who are poor.

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

Thanks be to God, that he gave me Stubborness, when I know I am right.

Pray how does your asparagus perform?