Government being, among other purposes, instituted to protect the consciences of men from oppression, it certainly is the duty of Rulers, not only to abstain from it themselves, but according to their stations, to prevent it in others.

An aching head and trembling limbs, which are the inevitable effects of drinking, disincline the hands from work.

Speak not evil of the absent for it is unjust.

I dare say the men would fight very well if properly officered, although they are an exceedingly dirty and nasty people.

I consider it an indubitable mark of mean-spiritedness and pitiful vanity to court applause from the pen or tongue of man.

If we cannot learn wisdom from experience, it is hard to say where it is to be found.

For it is fixed principle with me, that whatever is done should be done well.