“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”

“Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore.”

“Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.”

“Do good to your friends to keep them,to your enemies to win them.”

“Ignorance leads men into a party, and shame keeps them from getting out again.”

“Let thy discontents be thy secrets”

“I do not find that I grow any older. Being arrived at seventy, and considering that by traveling further in the same road I should probably be led to the grave, I stopped short, turned about, and walked back again; which having done these four years, you may now call me sixty-six. Advise those old friends of ours to follow my example; keep up your spirits, and that will keep up your bodies.”