It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on
Covetousness is ever attended with solicitude and anxiety.
There is nothing so absurd as knowledge spun too fine.
Success has ruin'd many a man.
Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the be.
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.