With earnest prayers to all my friends to cherish mutual good will, to promote harmony and conciliation, and above all things to let the love of our country soar above all minor passions, I tender you the assurance of my affectionate esteem and respect.

It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public debt.

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

To take a single step beyond the text would be to take possession of a boundless field of power.

If, then, the control of the people over the organs of their government be the measure of its republicanism, and I confess I know no other measure, it must be agreed that our governments have much less of republicanism than ought to have been expected; in other words, that the people have less regular control over their agents, than their rights and their interests require.

If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves.

Without health there is no happiness. An attention to health, then, should take the place of every other object.