"To form a new Government, requires infinite care, and abilities adequate to the task."

"I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy."

"As the Coach would be lonesome without the horses—and the horses might repine for want of their Coach (having been wedded together Seven years) you had better take both."

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

"The consideration that I was not a professional man, and that I had less pretensions to it than many, was a powerful argument against my undertaking the command."