You have two choices, write about something of significance or do something someone wants to write about.

The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason: The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out your Candle.

Proclaim not all though knowest, or all though owest.

A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.

The best tranquilizer is a clear conscience.

That the vegetable creation should restore the air which is spoiled by the animal part of it, looks like a rational system, and seems to be of a piece with the rest.

I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth; but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody.