Great talkers are little doers.

A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.

Silence - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.

Here you would know, and enjoy, what prosperity will way of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.

Get what you can, and what you get hold; 'tis the Stone that will turn all your Lead into Gold.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

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