Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.
Life is the art of being well deceived and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
Writing is a solitary occupation. Family friends and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone uninterrupted and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be but like our neighbours we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.