Decent easy men, who supinely enjoyed the gifts of the founder.

Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused

The gifts of bad men bring no good with them.

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.