Be thorough in all you do; and remember that although ignorance often may be innocent, pretension is always despicable.

Thrift of time will repay you in after-life with a thousandfold of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams.

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

Is not that state a warning and a judgment for our heavy sins as a nation?

Be thorough in all you do; and remember that although ignorance often may be innocent, pretension is always despicable.

To be engaged in opposing wrong affords...but a slender guarantee for being right.

The ravages of drink are greater than those of war pestilence and famine combined.