Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried.

The expedition of Messrs. Lewis & Clarke for exploring the river Missouri, & the best communication from that to the Pacific ocean, has had all the success which could have been expected.

Dependence leads to subservience.

Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence.

We should talk over the lessons of the day, or lose them in Music, Chess, or the merriments of our family companions.

Those who bear equally the burthens of Government should equally participate of its benefits.

Truth between candid minds can never do harm.