"I am embarked on a wide ocean, boundless in its prospect, and in which, perhaps, no safe harbor is to be found."

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

"It is much to be feared that the same motives which have hitherto retarded the abolition of slavery, will continue to operate."

"Experience teaches us that men are often so much governed by what they are accustomed to see and practice, that the most simple and obvious improvements, in the most ordinary occupations, are adopted …"

"I am sensible that I am not without my faults; but I am conscious of an honest intention."