Letter to John Jay
07/15/1795
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Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
Those who have been blessed with the privileges of education should be the guardians of those privileges for the benefit...
I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the chara...