You can't catch fish unless you put your line in the water. You can't reach your goals if you don't try. Trust a few. Do wrong to none. No legacy is so rich as honesty.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. He who can, does.