"I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy."

"It is impossible to govern the world without God and the Bible."

"I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent."

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few."

"The unfortunate condition of the persons, whose labour in this Country has hitherto been applied to the culture of the earth, and the various branches of Mechanics, can only be ameliorated by a slow, …"