A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach.
A hated government does not long survive.
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
Abstinence is easier than temperance.
Loyalty is the holiest good in the human heart.
The worse a person is the less he feels it.