An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try.

Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.

The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.

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.

It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should have been, and the historian must write about them not as they should have been, but as they were, without adding or subtracting anything from the truth.