- Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
- Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
- The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
- Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
- Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
- Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
- Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
- Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
- When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
- To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
- Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
- Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
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