We are overdone with banking institutions, which have banished the precious metals, and substituted a more fluctuating and unsafe medium... These have withdrawn capital from useful improvements and employments to nourish idleness... These are evils more easily to be deplored than remedied.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

It be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can never be made to yield better; yet we know that the grafting art implants a new tree on the savage stock, producing what is most estimable in kind and degree. Education, in like manner, engrafts a new man on the native stock, and improves what in his nature was vicious and perverse into qualities of virtue and social worth.

The only true corrective of Constitutional abuses is education.

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

One war, such as that of our Revolution, is enough for one life.

The several states composing the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government