Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

He that best understands the world, least likes it.

Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.

Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.

I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy.