A Countryman Between Two Lawyers Is Like

Wise Men Learn By Others' Harms, Fools Scarcely By Their Own.

I Have Conceived A Higher Opinion Of The Natural Capacities Of The Black Race Than I Had Ever Before Entertained. Their Apprehension Seems As Quick, Their Memory As Strong, And Their Docility In Every Respect Equal To That Of White Children.

Since They Are Our Right, Let Us Be Vigilant To Preserve Them Uninfringed, And Free From Encroachments. If Animosities Arise, And We Should Be Obliged To Resort To Party, Let Each Of Us Range Himself On The Side Which Unfurls The Ensigns Of Public Good. Faction Will Then Vanish, Which, If Not Timely Suppressed, May Overturn The Balance, The Palladium Of Liberty, And Crush Us Under Its Ruins.

Indeed The General Natural Tendency Of Reading Good History, Must Be, To Fix In The Minds Of Youth Deep Impressions Of The Beauty And Usefulness Of Virtue Of All Kinds, Publick Spirit, Fortitude.

I Think That Humanity Brings Much Misery On Itself By The False Value They Put On Things.