Observe all men, thyself most.
The world is run by the people who show up.
If you would not be forgotten, do things worth remembering.
Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.
Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion.
A fine genius in his own country is like gold in the mine.