» Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
» No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
» He that lives to forever, never fears dying.
» Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
» A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
» 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.
» Men must be governed by God, or they will be ruled by tyrants.
» To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.
» All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.
» No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.