You must be respectable, if you will be respected.

Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded.

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.

There will never be a better time to start quitting smoking than today

Ties of blood are not always ties of friendship; but friendship founded on merit, on esteem, and on mutual trust, becomes more vital and more tender when strengthened by the ties of blood.

When one is at play, one should not think of one's learning.

One of the greatest difficulties in civil war is, that more art is required to know what should be concealed from our friends, than what ought to be done against our enemies.