It is impossible rightly to govern the world without God and the Bible.
--Unknown (probably not George Washington)
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these
To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
We must never despair; our situation has been compromising before; and it changed for the better; so I trust it will again; If difficulties arise; we must put forth new exertion and proportion our efforts to the exigencies of the times.
