Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

• Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
• It is better to be alone than in bad company.
• It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.
• Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.
• My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
• Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
• Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
• 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.
• There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.
• Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.