If we cannot learn wisdom from experience, it is hard to say where it is to be found.

Refrain from drink which is the source of all evil-and the ruin of half the workmen in this Country.

Serious misfortunes, originating in misrepresentation, frequently flow and spread before they can be dissipated by truth.

Leadership is not only having a vision, but also having the courage, the discipline, and the resources to get you there.

Be Americans. Let there be no sectionalism, no North, South, East or West. You are all dependent on one another and should be one in union. In one word, be a nation. Be Americans, and be true to yourselves.

No taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant.

Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your reputation. Be not apt to relate news, if you know not the truth thereof. Speak no evil of the absent, for it is unjust. Undertake not what you cannot perform, but be careful to keep your promise. There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth, and pursue it steadily. Nothing but harmony, honesty, industry and frugality are necessary to make us a great and happy nation.