It is more honorable to repair a wrong than to persist in it

I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.

Take care that you never spell a word wrong. Always before you write a word, consider how it is spelled, and, if you do not remember, turn to a dictionary. It produces great praise to a lady to spell well. to his daughter Martha

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

There is nothing wrong with being an honorable lobbyist.