James Wilson said, "Far from being rivals or enemies, religion and law are twin sisters, friends, and mutual assistants. Indeed, these two sciences run into each other. The divine law, as discovered by reason and the moral sense, forms an essential part of both."
William Williams said, "It is of great importance that whoever attend here should be men of uprightness and integrity, inflexibly resolved to pursue and serve the great cause."
William Whipple said, "It would certainly give me more pleasure to hear that my great-grandfather had been instrumental in establishing a form of government that would entail happiness on future generations, than to hear he had left a great estate."
George Walton, while a prisoner of war and with a broken leg, said, "God bless you, my dear, and remember that you are sincerely loved by a man who wishes to make honor & reputation the rule of all his actions."
Robert Treat Paine said, "I have been in great anxiety for you ever since I left you. The appearance of a settled fit of sickness & a faultering constitution have filled me with very disagreeable apprehensions. I rely upon it therefore you will by the first opportunity let me hear of your Welfare."
