Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth; never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.

Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.