• Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life.
• Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
• It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
• I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
• Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
• It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.
• Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today.
• Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
• Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.
• Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
• Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation.
• Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
• Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.
• To contract new debts is not the way to pay old ones.
• We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
• Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.
• The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
• Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
• There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature.
• I was summoned by my country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love.

Chris George is an Ottawa-based government affairs advisor and wordsmith, president of CG&A COMMUNICATIONS. Contact: ChrisG.George@gmail.com