Live among others as if God beheld you; speak to God as if others were listening.

Freedom can't be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.

The path of increase is slow, but the road to ruin is rapid.

Human nature is so constituted that insults sink deeper than kindnesses; the remembrance of the latter soon passes away, while that of the former is treasured in the memory.

It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.

Fidelity bought with money is overcome by money.

To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-