If you are attacked as regards your style, never reply; it is for your work alone to make answer.

When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food, and the joy of living. Tecumseh Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing.

In this country [England] it is good to kill an admiral from time to time, to encourage the others. The reference is to Admiral John Byng, who was executed in 1757 for failing to prevent the French from taking Minorca.

The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him

If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor.

Nature has always had more force than education.