Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever; but, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an economy of truth. It is a sort of temperance, by which a man speaks truth with measure, that he may speak it the longer.

In their nomination to office they will not appoint to the exercise of authority as to a pitiful job, but as to a holy function.

The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!

Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures.

Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty; it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic.

Good order is the foundation of all things.

My good friends, while I do most earnestly recommend you to take care of your health and safety, as things most precious to us, I would not have that care degenerate into an effeminate and over-curious attention, which is always disgraceful to a man's self, and often troublesome to others.