Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.

We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.

Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.

'Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true.