Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.
Old age is the Outpatient's Dept of purgatory.
Gravity must be natural and simple; there must be urbanity and tenderness in it. A man must not formalize on everything. He who does so is a fool; and a grave fool is, perhaps, more injurious than a light fool.
England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.
Win hearts, and you have all men's hands and purses.
Praise your children openly, reprove them secretly.