Are you angry that others disappoint you? Remember you cannot depend upon yourself.

The one who fails to prepare is preparing to fail.

Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.

I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. The turkey is a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America.

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

He that rises late must trot all day.