A People May Let A King Fall,

My Dear Son... Remember That You Are Accountable To Your Maker For All Your Words And Actions.

These Are The Times In Which A Genius Would Wish To Live. It Is Not In The Still Calm Of Life, Or The Repose Of A Pacific Station, That Great Characters Are Formed. The Habits Of A Vigorous Mind Are Formed In Contending With Difficulties. Great Necessities Call Out Great Virtues. When A Mind Is Raised, And Animated By Scenes That Engage The Heart, Then Those Qualities Which Would Otherwise Lay Dormant, Wake Into Life And Form The Character Of The Hero And The Statesman.

A Patriot Without Religion In My Estimation Is As Great A Paradox As An Honest Man Without The Fear Of God. Is It Possible That He Whom No Moral Obligations Bind, Can Have Any Real Good Will Towards Men?

No One Is Without Their Difficulties, Whether In High, Or Low Life, & Every Person Knows Best Where Their Own Shoe Pinches.

We Have Too Many High-sounding Words, And Too Few Actions That Correspond With Them.