Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. expect nothing - get nothing! but expect something - get something!!

There are many roads to success, but only one sure road to failure; and that is to try to please everyone else.

[E]very Man who comes among us, and takes up a piece of Land, becomes a Citizen, and by our Constitution has a Voice in Elections, and a share in the Government of the Country.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.

I say it is impossible that so sensible a people [citizens of Paris], under such circumstances, should have lived so long by the smoky, unwholesome, and enormously expensive light of candles, if they had really known that they might have had as much pure light of the sun for nothing.

The rotten apple spoils his companion.