You have on hand those things that you need if you have but the wit and wisdom to use them.

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.

Some make Conscience of wearing a Hat in the Church, who make none of robbing the Altar.

Life is a kind of chess.

Beauty and folly are old companions.

That is simple. In the Colonies we issue our own money. It is called Colonial Scrip. We issue it in proper proportion to the demands of trade and industry to make the products pass easily from the producers to the consumers. In this manner creating for ourselves our own paper money, we control its purchasing power, and we have no interest to pay.

Reckless youth makes rueful age.