It is our duty to make the best of our misfortunes, and not to suffer passion to interfere with our interest and public good.
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man. We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear-brought experience. There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity.