Three people can keep a secret so long as two of them are dead.

Who is rich? He who is content. Who is that? Nobody.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

I believe I shall,in some shape or other,always exist; and, with all the inconveniences human life is liable to, I shall not object to a new edition of mine, hoping, however, that the errata of the last may be corrected.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.