If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.

Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have either one.

On the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavor, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been had I not attempted it.

After getting the first hundred pounds, it is more easy to get the second.

Drive your business. Let not your business drive you.

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.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.