Beer, if drank with moderation, softens the temper, cheers the spirit, and promotes health.

May [our Declaration of Independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all), the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government... All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man.

Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself.

Would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm on the theoretic and visionary fear that this Government, the world's best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself? I trust not.

[A] spirit of justice and friendly accomodation...is our duty and our interest to cultivate with all nations.

The people are not always well-informed, but is better that they have misconceptions that make them restless than that they be lethargic-for lethargy in the people means death for republics.

Do not neglect your music. It will be a companion which will sweeten many hours of life to you.