Experience Is A Safe Guide.

Speak Properly, And In As Few Words As You Can, But Always Plainly; For The End Of Speech Is Not Ostentation, But To Be Understood.

I Expect To Pass Through This World But Once. Any Good Therefore That I Can Do ... Let Me Do It Now.

Neither Despise Nor Oppose What Thou Dost Not Understand.

A Good End Cannot Sanctify Evil Means; Nor Must We Ever Do Evil, That Good May Come Of It.

Tis The Glory Of A Man To Vail To Truth; As It Is The Mark Of A Good Nature To Be Easily Entreated.