Never, No Never, Did Nature Say One

The Poorest Being That Crawls On Earth, Contending To Save Itself From Injustice And Oppression, Is An Object Respectable In The Eyes Of God And Man.

Fiction Lags After Truth, Invention Is Unfruitful, And Imagination Cold And Barren.

Make The Revolution A Parent Of Settlement, And Not A Nursery Of Future Revolutions.

A Disposition To Preserve, And An Ability To Improve, Taken Together, Would Be My Standard Of A Statesman.

Flattery Corrupts Both The Receiver And The Giver.