To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.

I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an "Honest Man".

True friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well-tried before you give them your confidence.

Actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence - it is force.