No Nation Has Ever Been Ruined By

None But The Well-bred Man Knows How To Confess A Fault, Or Acknowledge Himself In An Error.

You Cannot Always Run From A Weakness. You Must Sometime Fight It Out Or Perish.

Three Things Are Men Most Likely To Be Cheated In, A Horse, A Wig, And A Wife.

In 1736 I Lost One Of My Sons, A Fine Boy Of Four Years Old, By The Small-pox, Taken In The Common Way. I Long Regretted Bitterly, And Still Regret That I Had Not Given It To Him By Inoculation. This I Mention For The Sake Of Parents Who Omit That Operation, On The Supposition That They Should Never Forgive Themselves If A Child Died Under It; My Example Showing That The Regret May Be The Same Either Way, And That, Therefore, The Safer Should Be Chosen.

Drive Thy Business Or It Will Drive Thee.