If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

I believe there is one Supreme most perfect being. [...] I believe He is pleased and delights in the happiness of those He has created; and since without virtue man can have no happiness in this world, I firmly believe He delights to see me virtuous.

I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

What good shall I do this day?

A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang.

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.