Earnestly recommended to all officers and soldiers, diligently to attend divine services.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.

The system of banking have[for]ever reprobated. I contemplate it as a blot left in all our Constitutions, which, if not covered, will end in their destruction, which is already hit by the gamblers in corruption, and is sweeping away in its progress the fortunes and morals of our citizens.

Most men die at age 25, but aren't buried until 70.

Paper is poverty, it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.

Rejecting all organs of informationbut my senses, I rid myself of the Pyrrhonisms with which an indulgence in speculations hyperphysical and antiphysical so uselessly occupy and disquiet the mind.