Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry.

We are Englishmen; that is one good fact.

Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.

Does a man speak foolishly? – suffer him gladly, for you are wise. Does he speak erroneously? – stop such a man’s mouth with sound words that cannot be gainsaid. Does he speak truly? – rejoice in the truth.

Opportunity is sometimes hard to recognize if you’re only looking for a lucky break.

Royalty is but a feather in a man’s cap; let children enjoy their rattle.

For that which you mention concerning liberty of conscience, I meddle not with any man’s conscience.

A man never goes so far as when he does not know whither he is going.

Nature can do more than physicians.

There isn’t a tree to hang a man, water to drown a man nor soil to bury a man.