Writers are the main landmarks of the past.

We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.

Beside one deed of guilt, how blest is guiltless woe!

If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't. And the advice applies to many doubts in life besides that of letter writing.

Julius Caesar owed two millions when he risked the experiment of being general in Gaul. If Julius Caesar had not lived to cross the Rubicon, and pay off his debts, what would his creditors have called Julius Caesar?

If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.

Every man loves and admires his own country because it produced him.