We ought to love our Maker for His own sake, without either hope of good or fear of pain.

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Hunger is the best sauce in the world.

He who gives early gives twice.

Honesty is the best policy, I will stick to that. The good shall have my hand and heart, but the bad neither foot nor fellowship. And in my mind, the main point of governing, is to make a good beginning.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

To be good to the vile is to throw water into the sea.