Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous conscientiousness of honor. It is not the produce of riches only, but of the hard earnings of labor and poverty. It is drawn even from the bitterness of want and misery. Not a beggar passes, or perishes in the streets, whose mite is not in that mass.

We have every opportunity and every encouragement before us, to form the noblest truest constitution on the face of the earth. We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

All men can understand what representation is; and that it must necessarily include a variety of knowledge and talents.

That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true.

Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.