"The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it."

"It is well known that when I was in the service of my country, I never spared myself; and I do not mean to do it now."

"Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company."

"Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble."

"There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature."