My Religious Reading Has Long Been Confined

Of The Various Executive Abilities, No One Excited More Anxious Concern Than That Of Placing The Interests Of Our Fellow-citizens In The Hands Of Honest Men, With Understanding Sufficient For Their Stations. No Duty Is At The Same Time More Difficult To Fulfil. The Knowledge Of Character Possessed By A Single Individual Is Of Necessity Limited. To Seek Out The Best Through The Whole Union, We Must Resort To The Information Which From The Best Of Men, Acting Disinterestedly And With The Purest Motives, Is Sometimes Incorrect.

A Mind Always Employed Is Always Happy. This Is The True Secret, The Grand Recipe, For Felicity.

When Two Parties Make A Compact, There Results To Each A Power Of Compelling The Other To Execute It.

Amplification Is The Vice Of Modern Oratory. It Is An Insult To An Assembly Of Reasonable Men, Disgusting And Revolting Instead Ofpersuading. Speeches Measured By The Hour, Die By The Hour.

The Opinions And Beliefs Of Men Follow Involuntarily The Evidence Proposed To Their Minds.