Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

If you have any fault to find with anyone, tell him, not others, of what you complain; there is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.

Do your duty in all things, like the old Puritan. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.

I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.

Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.