Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.

Mortifications are often more painful than real calamities.

Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes; The naked every day he clad When he put on his clothes.

A silent address is the genuine eloquence of sincerity.

The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.

An emperor in his nightcap will not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.