There is envy and jealousy sufficient in the world to seek to lessen a character however beneficial to the country or useful to the state.

So long as we are inhabitants of this earth and possess any of our faculties, we cannot be indifferent to the state of our country, our posterity, and our friends.

I feared much for your health when you went away. I must entreat you to be as careful as you can consistent with a duty you owe your country.

Where is the true Native American Spirit? It dwells in the breasts of our uncorrupted orators, in our yeomanry, in our sailors, and in our few remaining old patriots. Where dwells British influence? In our banks, in our warehouses, in our commerce.

It is a philosophic observation, that he who deserves an affront has no right to resent it, and he who is base enough to affront another without cause is unworthy of anything but contempt.

Who is hardy enough to brave contempt?

There is nothing which a person will not sooner forgive, than contempt.

What female mind—young, beautiful, rich,—must she not be more than woman if vanity was not the predominate passion?

How soon may our fairest prospects be leveled with the dust and show us that man in his best estate is but vanity and dust?

One month of daily expectation is more tedious than a year of certainty.