We can not guarantee success, but we can strive to deserve it.

The mark of a successful party is that people hate to see it end, and it is the rare host who is not flattered to find people lingering. But there are limits and exceptions, and good guests know when to go home.

remember, the party is not about you; it's about your desire to bring pleasure to others.

Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none, although they give occasion.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company

We should never despair; our situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, so I trust, it will again. If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth new exertions and proportion our efforts to the exigency of the times.

Tis substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.

We should never despair, our Situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, so I trust, it will again. If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth New Exertions and proportion our efforts to the exigency of the times.

The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent & respectable stranger but the oppressed & persecuted of all Nations & Religions; whom we shall welcome to a participation of all our rights and privileges.

The nation which indulges toward another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.