Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided

You are now fixed at the mercy of no governor that comes to make his fortune great; you shall be governed by laws of your own making and live a free, and if you will, a sober and industrious life. I shall not usurp the right of any, or …

my prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man

The Country is both the Philosopher’s Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.

Fidelity has enfranchised slaves, and adopted servants to be sons

Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.

I have great love and regard toward you, and I desire to win and gain your love and friendship by a kind just, and peaceable life; and the people I send are of the same mind, and shall in all things behave themselves accordingly.