Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.

Don't gamble take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.