Before Beginning, Prepare Carefully.

Never Injure A Friend, Even In Jest.

Favours Out Of Place I Regard As Positive Injuries.

In Fact The Whole Passion Ordinarily Termed Love (and Heaven Help Me If I Can Think Of Any Other Term To Apply To It) Is Of Such Exceeding Triviality That I See Nothing That I Think Comparable With It.

Not To Know What Happened Before One Was Born Is Always To Be A Child.

The Gardener Plants Trees, Not One Berry Of Which He Will Ever See: And Shall Not A Public Man Plant Laws, Institutions, Government, In Short, Under The Same Conditions?