Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

I cannot live without books.

I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.