Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life..

Sin is the mother, and shame the daughter of lewdness..

Courage ought to be guided by skill, and skill armed by courage. Neither should hardiness darken wit, nor wit cool hardiness. Be valiant as men despi….

Fear is the underminer of all determinations; and necessity, the victorious rebel of all laws..

Contentions for trifles can get but a trifling victory..

Every base occupation makes one sharp in its practice, and dull in every other..

Some are unwisely liberal, and more delight to give presents than to pay debts..

Provision is the foundation of hospitality, and thrift the fuel of magnificence..

All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience..

It depends on education--that holder of the keys which the Almighty hath put into our hands--to open the gates which lead to virtue or to vice, to ha….

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened..

A brave captain is as a root, out of which, as branches, the courage of his soldiers doth spring..

The violence of sorrow is not at the first to be striven withal; being, like a mighty beast, sooner tamed with following than overthrown by withstand….

Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue..

Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done; neither with pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling flowers,….

The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace, The smoke of hell,--that monster called Paine..

There is nothing sooner overthrows a weak head than opinion by authority, like too strong a liquor for a frail glass..

What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring?.

There is no man suddenly either excellently good or extremely evil, but grows either as he holds himself up in virtue or lets himself slide to viciou….

Great captains do never use long orations when it comes to the point of execution..

There is a certain delicacy which in yielding conquers; and with a pitiful look makes one find cause to crave help one's self..