The happiness of society depends so much on preventing party spirit from infecting the common intercourse of life, that nothing should be spared to harmonize and amalgamate the two parties in social circles.

The equal rights of man and the happiness of every individual are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.

I wish to see this beverage become common instead of the whiskey which kills sone-third of our citizens and ruins their families.

Money, not morality, constitutes the principle of commercial nations.

I am already sensible of decay in the power of walking, and find my memory not so faithful as it used to be. This may be partly owing to the incessant current of new matter flowing constantly through it; but I ascribe to years their share in it also.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses.