"I have always walked a straight line, and I have always spoken my sentiments without fear or affection."

"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."

"If to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the event is in the hand of God."

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

"Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the too frequent changes of officers."