I looked around for God's judgments, but saw no signs of them.
Hereafter, if you should observe an occasion to give your officers and friends a little more praise than is their due, and confess more fault than you can justly be charged with, you will only become the sooner for it, a great captain.
He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.
He that would fish, must venture his bait.
I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else.