An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Who is strong? He that can conquer his bad habits.

Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.

But they have two other Rights; those of sitting when they please, and as long as they please, in which methinks they have the advantage of your Parliament; for they cannot be dissolved by the Breath of a Minister, or sent packing as you were the other day, when it was your earnest desire to have remained longer together.

There is no such thing as a good war or a bad peace.

You cannot always run from a weakness. You must sometime fight it out or perish.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.