Whoever shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

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.

Indeed, when religious people quarrel about religion, or hungry people quarrel about victuals, it looks as if they had not much of either among them.

A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours.

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.