Our country's honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion; and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world.

I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend's interest and inclination.

Like as a wise man in time of peace prepares for war.

[Avoid] likewise the accumulation of debt.

... the benefit arising from moderate use of strong Liquor have been experienced in all Armies, and are not to be disputed.

Every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome.

Religion is as necessary to reason as reason is to religion. The one cannot exist without the other. A reasoning being would lose his reason, in attempting to account for the great phenomena of nature, had he not a Supreme Being to refer to; and well has it been said, that if there had been no God, mankind would have been obliged to imagine one.