Sleep not when others speak, sit not when others stand, speak not when you should hold your peace, walk not when others stop.

Let your countenance be pleasant, but in serious matters let it be somewhat grave.

To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

He hopes the officers will, by example as well as influence, endeavor to check it and that both they and the men will reflect that we can have little hope of the blessing of heaven on our arms if we insult it by our impropriety and folly. Added to this, it is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense and character detests and despises it.