Birth: January 4, 1796 Death: August 22, 1884
He who commences many things finishes but few..
Every dog is a lion at home..
Nature, time and patience are three great physicians..
He who has good health is young..
Use soft words in hard arguments..
Forgiveness is the noblest vengeance..
Freindships multiply joys and divide griefs.
He preacheth patience that never knew pain.
He that ceaseth to be a friend never was a good one..
There is nothing can equal the tender hours When life is first in bloom, When the heart like a bee, in a wild of flowers, Finds everywhere perfume; W….
He that is master of himself will soon be master of others..
Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms..
Hunger finds no fault with the cookery..
Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black..
Give and spend And God will send..
On paper curiously shaped Scribblers to-day of every sort, In verses Valentines ycled'd To Venus chime their annual court. I too will swell the motle….
Good luck reaches farther than long arms..
Business and action strengthen the brain, but too much study weakens it..
Friends are like fiddle strings; they must not be screwed too tight..
An inch in a man's nose is much..
Advantage is a better soldier than rashness..