Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.

Blame-all and Praise-all are two blockheads.

He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security.

Pardoning the Bad, is injuring the Good.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

That there is one God, who made all things. That he governs the world by his providence. That he might be worshipped by adoration, prayer, and thanksgiving. But that the most acceptable service of God is doing good to Man. That the Soul is immortal. And that God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter.

Be ashamed to catch yourself idle.