Rules of living Don't worry, eat three square meals a day,say your prayers, be courteous to your creditors, keep your digestion good,steer clear of biliousness,exercise, go slow and go easy. May be there are other things that your special case requires to make you happy, but my friend, these, i reckon, will give you a good life.

You have confidence in yourself, which is valuable, if not an indispensable quality.

Nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world.

You have more of a feeling of personal resentment than I have. Perhaps, I have too little of it, but I never thought it paid.

I failed, I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it.

As the patriots of seventy-six did to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the support of the Constitution and Laws, let every American pledge his life, his property, and his sacred honor;-let every man remember that to violate the law, is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the character of his own, and his children's liberty.

If the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to bevery much chagrined.