"Play not the Peacock, looking everywhere about..." - Quote by George Washington

“To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.”

“To point out the importance of circumspection in your conduct, it may be proper to observe that a good moral character is the first essential in a man, and that the habits contracted at your age are generally indelible, and your conduct here may stamp your character through life. It is therefore highly important that you should endeavor not only to be learned but virtuous.”

“If there was the same propensity in mankind for investigating the motives, as there is for censuring the conduct, of public characters, it would be found that the censure so freely bestowed is oftentimes unmerited and uncharitable.”

“Begin and proceed on a settled conviction that but little is permitted to any man to do or to know, and if he complies with the first grand laws, he shall do well.”

“Those who think they know it all have no way of finding out they don't.”

“Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble.”

“One had a lovely face,And two or three had charm,But charm and face were in vain.Because the mountain grassCannot keep the formWhere the mountain hare has lain.”

“I hope people realise that there is a brain underneath the hair and a heart underneath the boobs.”

“A college degree does not lessen the length of your ears; it only conceals it.”