Waning moons their settled periods keep, to swell the billows and ferment the deep.

A cheerful temper, joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured.

I always rejoice when I see a tribunal filled with a man of an upright and inflexible temper, who in the execution of his country's laws can overcome all private fear, resentment, solicitation, and even pity itself.

My voice is still for war.

When a man has been guilty of any vice or folly, the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not to fall into the like.

Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.