To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
Half a truth is often a great lie.
Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
Lost time is never found again; and what we call time enough, always proves little enough.