Students of reading, writing and common arithmetick . . . Graecian [Greek], Roman, English and American history . . . should be rendered . . . worthy to receive, and able to guard the sacred deposit of the rights and liberties of their fellow citizens.

All things here appear to me to trudge on in one and the same round: we rise in the morning that we may eat breakfast, dinner andsupper and to bed again that we may get up the next morning and do the same: so that you never saw two peas more alike than our yesterday and to-day.

A Man's management of his own purse speaks volumes about character

When tempted to do any thing in secret, ask yourself if you would do it in public.

Private enterprise manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal.

An informed citizenry is at the heart of a dynamic democracy.

Wine from long habit has become an indispensable for my health