If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves; and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.

Five things are requisite to a good officer — ability, clean hands, despatch, patience, and impartiality.

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

What man in his right mind would conspire his own hurt? Men are beside themselves when they transgress against their convictions.

Levity of behavior, always a weakness, is far more unbecoming in a woman than a man.

I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.