Many falsehoods are passing into uncontradicted history.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Rash oaths, whether kept or broken, frequently produce guilt.

Knock the 't' off the 'can't.'

There is nothing against which an old man should be so much upon his guard as putting himself to nurse.

These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice, when obstinacy or ambition adds another year to slaughter and devastation; and laugh, from their desks, at bravery and science, while they are adding figure to figure, and cipher to cipher, hoping for a new contract from a new armament, and computing the profits of a siege or tempest.

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.