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.

Do not fear mistakes.

Annual giving is the custom of making a gift-a-year to an institution in which one has faith.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.

Let each new year find you a better person.

A lady asked Dr. Franklin Well Doctor what have we got a republic or a monarchy - "A republic," replied the Doctor, "if you can keep it."