My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs through views of private interest; but to go straight forward in doing what appears to me right at the time, leaving the consequences with Providence.
God helps those who help themselves.
Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.
Pain wastes the Body, Pleasures the Understanding.
The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours.