Let Thy Discontents Be Thy Secrets

A Nation Of Well-informed Men Who Have Been Taught To Know And Prize The Rights Which God Has Given Them Cannot Be Enslaved. It Is In The Region Of Ignorance That Tyranny Begins.” Benjamin Franklin

Before Noah, Men Having Only Water To Drink, Could Not Find The Truth. Accordingly...they Became Abominably Wicked, And They Were Justly Exterminated By The Water They Loved To Drink. This Good Man, Noah, Having Seen That All His Contemporaries Had Perished By This Unpleasant Drink, Took A Dislike To It; And God, To Relieve His Dryness, Created The Vine And Revealed To Him The Art Of Making Le Vin. By The Aid Of This Liquid He Unveiled More And More Truth.

Cunning Proceeds From Want Of Capacity.

Who Is Wise? He That Learns From Everyone.

I Think That A Young State, Like A Young Virgin, Should Modestly Stay At Home, And Wait The Application Of Suitors For An Alliance With Her; And Not Run About Offering Her Amity To All The World; And Hazarding Their Refusal. Our Virgin Is A Jolly One; And Tho At Present Not Very Rich, Will In Time Be A Great Fortune, And Where She Has A Favorable Predisposition, It Seems To Me Well Worth Cultivating.