No one can take less pains than to hold his tongue. Hear much, and speak little; for the tongue is the instrument of the greatest good and greatest evil that is done in the world.

Whoever commands the sea, commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself.

It would be an unspeakable advantage, both to the public and private, if men would consider that great truth, that no man is wise or safe but he that is honest.

Men endure the losses that befall them by mere casualty with more patience than the damages they sustain by injustice.

Death, which hateth and destroyeth a man, is believed; God, which hath made him and loves him, is always deferred.

A man must first govern himself ere he is fit to govern a family; and his family ere he be fit to bear the government of the commonwealth.

Hatreds are the cinders of affection.