Success Has Ruin'd Many A Man.

Our New Constitution Is Now Established, And Has An Appearance That Promises Permanency; But In The World Nothing Can Be Said To Be Certain Except Death And Taxes.

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.

When About 16 Years Of Age, I Happened To Meet With A Book Written By One Tryon, Recommending A Vegetable Diet. I Determined To Go Into It.... My Refusing To Eat Flesh Occasioned An Inconveniency, And I Was Frequently Chid For My Singularity.

Lighthouses Are More Helpful Than Churches.

Grievances Cannot Be Redressed Until They Are Known; And They Cannot Be Known But Through Complaints And Petitions. If These Are Deemed Affronts, And The Messengers Punished As Offenders, Who Will Henceforth Send Petitions? And Who Will Deliver Them? Wise Governments Encouraged The Airing Of Grievances, Even Those That Were Lightly Founded Foolish Governments Did The Opposite - To Their Peril. Where Complaining Is A Crime, Hope Becomes Despair.