The best way to do good to ourselves is to do it to others; the right way to gather is to scatter.

It passes in the world for greatness of mind, to be perpetually giving and loading people with bounties; but it is one thing to know how to give and another thing not to know how to keep. Give me a heart that is easy and open, but I will have no holes in it; let it be bountiful with judgment, but I will have nothing run out of it I know not how.

Life without the courage for death is slavery.

The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.

He, who decides a case without hearing the other side, though he decides justly, cannot be considered just.

The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.

The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves.