Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.

In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.

A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.