Peace is our passion.
If the body be feeble, the mind will not be strong.
Our business is to have great credit and to use it little.
The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the states are independent as to everything within themselves and united as to everything respecting foreign nations. Let the general government be reduced to foreign concerns only.
Above all things, and at all times, practice yourself in good humor.
By... [selecting] the youths of genius from among the classes of the poor, we hope to avail the State of those talents which nature has sown as liberally among the poor as the rich, but which perish without use if not sought for and cultivated.