Grievances cannot be redressed until they are known; and they cannot be known but through complaints and petitions. If these are deemed affronts, and the messengers punished as offenders, who will henceforth send petitions? And who will deliver them? Wise governments encouraged the airing of grievances, even those that were lightly founded Foolish governments did the opposite - to their peril. Where complaining is a crime, hope becomes despair.

Let thy discontents be thy secrets

I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.

Let me resolve to be virtuous, that I may be happy, that I may please Him, who is delighted to see me happy. Amen.

God helps them that help themselves.

I've striven my whole life for humility, but if I'd ever achieved it, I'd probably be pretty damn proud of that.

The problem with common sense is, it isn't.