Great advantages are often attended with great inconveniences, and great minds called to severe trials.

The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul.

By the Declaration of Independence, dreaded by the foes an for a time doubtfully viewed by many of the friends of America, everything stood on a new and more respectable footing, both with regard to the operations of war or negotiations with foreign powers.

'Tis social converse, animates the soul.

I am more and more convinced, of the propensity in human nature to tyranize over their fellow men.

The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization.

Before this address to my countrymen is closed, I beg leave to observe, that as a new century has dawned upon us, the mind is naturally led ot contemplate the great events that have run parallel with and have just closed the last.