The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
That as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.
There cannot be good living where there is not good drinking.
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality.
Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.