Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.

There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

To be like Christ is to be a Christian.

A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope.