Tell not of your prosperity, because it will make two men mad to one glad; nor of your adversity, for it will make two men glad to one sad.

He boasts too much of having made his fortune, and placed himself at ease, above all favors of government.

This is a weakness, and betrays too little knowledge of the world; too little penetration; too little discretion.

I wish, however, that my boys had a little more of his activity.

I must soon treat them as the pigeons treat their squabs--push them off the limb, and make them put out their wings or fall.