How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
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.
To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast in the very lap of fortune.
We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately.
Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.