It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

It is certain that the most natural and human government is that of consent, for that binds freely, ... when men hold their liberty by true obedience to rules of their own making.

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

For as men in battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this world, are ever within the reach of Temptation.

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.