America Cultivates Best What Germany Brought Forth.

There Is Nothing Wrong With Retirement As Long As One Doesn't Allow It To Interfere With One's Work.

Furnished As All Europe Now Is With Academies Of Science, With Nice Instruments And The Spirit Of Experiment, The Progress Of Human Knowledge Will Be Rapid And Discoveries Made Of Which We Have At Present No Conception. I Begin To Be Almost Sorry I Was Born So Soon, Since I Cannot Have The Happiness Of Knowing What Will Be Known A Hundred Years Hence.

Let Honesty Be As The Breath Of Thy Soul; Then Shalt Thou Reach The Point Of Happiness, And Independence Shall Be Thy Shield And Buckler, Thy Helmet And Crown; Then Shall Thy Soul Walk Upright, Nor Stoop To The Silken Wretch Because He Hath Riches, Nor Pocket An Abuse Because The Hand Which Offers It Wears A Ring Set With Diamonds.

If You Wou'd Have Guests Merry With Your Cheer, Be So Your Self, Or So At Least Appear.

Be Not Disturbed At Trifles, Or At Accidents Common Or Unavoidable.