"A good End cannot sanctifie evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it."

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

"True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment."

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

"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."

"Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it."

"All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only on the full use of our creative imagination."

"Hatred is the anger of the weak."

"To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man."

"No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately."

"He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen and hearten those Europeans upon whom the long dark night of tyranny had descended."

"1. Never tell everything at once."