Sleep not when others speak, sit not when others stand, speak not when you should hold your peace, walk not when others stop.

No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or an economy of time more valuable.

The company in which you will improve most will be least expensive to you.

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.

In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.

Do not conceive that fine Clothes make fine Men, any more than fine feathers make fine Birds. A plain genteel dress is more admired and obtains more credit than lace and embroidery in the Eyes of the judicious and sensible.

Give not advice without being asked, and when desired, do it briefly.