Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.