Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
Ignorant men do not know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either.
Goodbye to the sun that shines for me no longer.
Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.