"Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning."

"Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government."

"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government."

"For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security."

"Love is a friendship set to music."

"Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing."

"As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend."

"Blunders, no, only friendship binds us to honesty - attracting crypts of mushrooms in the wake of our snowboards."