Always Remember To Bound Thy Thoughts To

Government Seems To Me To Be A Part Of Religion Itself - A Thing Sacred In Its Institutions And Ends.

Nor Yet Be Overeager In Pursuit Of Any Thing; For The Mercurial Too Often Happen To Leave Judgment Behind Them, And Sometimes Make Work For Repentance.

A Good End Cannot Sanctify Evil Means; Nor Must We Ever Do Evil That Good May Come Of It. We Are Too Ready To Retaliate, Rather Than Forgive, Or Gain By Love And Information. And Yet We Could Hurt No Man That We Believe Loves Us. Let Us, Then, Try What Love Will Do: For If Men Do Once See That We Love Them, We Should Soon Find They Would Not Harm Us. Force May Subdue, But Love Gains; And He That Forgives First, Wins The Laurel.

To Hazard Much To Get Much Has More Of Avarice Than Wisdom.

Speak Properly, And In As Few Words As You Can, But Always Plainly; For The End Of Speech Is Not Ostentation, But To Be Understood.