Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.