Nothing is a greater stranger to my breast, or a sin that my soul more abhors, than that black and detestable one, ingratitude.
George Washington
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
Elizabeth Fry
Success has ruined many a man.
Benjamin Franklin
No important institution is ever merely what the law makes it. It accumulates about itself traditions, conventions, ways of behaviour, which are not less formidable in their influence.
Harold Laki
I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.
Patrick Henry
The hunter and the deer a shade.
Philip Morin Freneau
Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit.