Mine is better than ours.

A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.

There is no such thing as a good war or a bad peace.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Drive your business. Let not your business drive you.

The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.

Strangers are welcome because there is room enough for them all, and therefore the old Inhabitants are not jealous of them; the Laws protect them sufficiently so that they have no need of the Patronage of great Men; and every one will enjoy securely the Profits of his Industry. But if he does not bring a Fortune with him, he must work and be industrious to live.