It is manifest that all government of action is to be gotten by knowledge, and knowledge best, by gathering many knowledges, which is reading.

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

In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.

It is a great happiness to be praised of them that are most praise-worthy.

My true love hath my heart, and I have his

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.

Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves; and the higher they be, the less they should show.

Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray.

If you neglect your work, you will dislike it; if you do it well, you will enjoy it

Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.

Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God!

Fear that makes faith may break faith.

Life for me these days is a lot about letting the unknown be wonderful.

We are called with a special calling, and we have a special mission to perform.

Leadership is not a position or a title, it is action and example.

Ceremony is necessary in Courts, as the outwork and defense of manners.

It is a worthy thing to fight for one's freedom; it is another sight finer to fight for another man's.

Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along.

With difficulty he is beaten who can estimate his own forces and those of his enemy.