Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one.

I consent Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure, that it is not the best.

Here Skugg lies snug As a bug in a rug.

There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry.

...it is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man if he will make a business of it.

In prosperous fortunes be modest and wise, The greatest may fall, and the lowest may rise: But insolent People that fall in disgrace, Are wretched and nobody pities their Case.

If a man would reap praise, you must sow the seeds, gentle words and useful deeds.