When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views.

Eat few suppers, and you'll need few medicines.

Be cheerful -- the problems that worry us most are those that never arrive.

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.

God helps them that help themselves.

One day is worth a thousand tomorrows.

Applause waits on success.