The States should be watchful to note every material usurpation on their rights; to denounce them as they occur in the most peremptory terms; to protest against them as wrongs to which our present submission shall be considered, not as acknowledgments or precedents of rights, but as a temporary yielding to the lesser evil, until their accumulation shall overweigh that of separation.

Coffee - the favorite drink of the civilized world.

The only greater [evil] than separation... [is] living under a government of discretion.

It is an encouraging observation that no good measure was ever proposed which, if duly pursued, failed to prevail in the end.

Were I to commence my administration again, the first question I would ask respecting a candidate would be, Does he use ardent spirits?

I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post which any human power can give.

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