"I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am uninfluenced by any consideration of private interest."

"My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother."

"I require no guard but the affections of the people."

"I am glad to hear that my old acquaintance Colonel Ward is yet under the influence of vigorous passions. I will not ascribe the intrepidity of his late enterprise to a mere flash of desires, because i…"

"The unfortunate condition of the persons whose labour in part I employed has been the only unavoidable subject of regret."