A bad war is fought with a good mind.

Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable.

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.

[L]eave nothing to the uncertainty of procuring a warlike apparatus at the moment of public danger.

Let me ask you, sir, when is the time for brave men to exert themselves in the cause of liberty and their country, if this is not?

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

'Tis folly in one Nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its Independence for whatever it may accept under that character; that by such acceptance, it may place itself in the condition of having given equivalents for nominal favours and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more. There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate upon real favours from Nation to Nation. 'Tis an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.