In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character.

Pardon is granted to necessity.

...the counsels of the Divine Mind had some glimpse of truth when they said that men are born in order to suffer the penalty for sins committed in a former life.

It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a sad thing to be grieved when grief can do no good.

Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen.