Ambition Has Its Disappointments To Sour Us,

Keep Your Eyes Wide Open Before Marriage, Half Shut Afterwards.

Be Ashamed To Catch Yourself Idle.

I Have So Much Faith In The General Government Of The World By Providence That I Can Hardly Conceive A Transaction Of Such Momentous Importance [as The Framing Of The Constitution] ... Should Be Suffered To Pass Without Being In Some Degree Influenced, Guided, And Governed By That Omnipotent, Omnipresent, And Beneficent Ruler In Whom All Inferior Spirits Live And Move And Have Their Being.

He That Scatters Thorns, Let Him Not Go Barefoot.

We May Perhaps Learn To Deprive Large Masses Of Their Gravity And Give Them Absolute Levity, For The Sake Of Easy Transport.