The whole duty of man is summed up in obedience to God's will.

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

Require nothing unreasonable of your officers and men, but see that whatever is required be punctually complied with. Reward and punish every man according to his merit, without partiality or prejudice; hear his complaints; if well founded, redress them; if otherwise, discourage them, in order to prevent frivolous ones. Discourage vice in every shape, and impress upon the mind of every man, from the first to the lowest, the importance of the cause, and what it is they are contending for.

A pack of jackasses led by a lion is superior to a pack of lions led by a jackass.

It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.

It is one of the evils of democratical governments, that the people, not always seeing and frequently misled, must often feel before they can act.

Reason, too late perhaps, may convince you of the folly of misspending time.