Kings have long arms, but Misfortune longer: let none think themselves out of her reach.

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace. When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

There is no gains without pain.

Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.

Take it from Richard, poor and lame, What's begun in anger ends in shame.

The moral and religious system which Jesus Christ transmitted to us is the best the world has ever seen, or can see.