Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more importance than the highest.

The work to me is everything, and I would throw every rule overboard and send them to the bottom of the sea tomorrow, if I felt there were a more excellent way.

I can conduct better than I count.

Only disaster can follow divided counsels and opposing wills.

There can be only one Captain to a ship.

I look upon you as a gem of the old rock.