All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
From Benjamin Franklin
Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.
For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestly.
Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
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