Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Why should I expect to be exempt from censure; the unfailing lot of an elevated station? My Heart tells me it has been my unremitted aim to do the best circumstances would permit; yet, I may have been very often mistaken in my judgment of the means,

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.