Bekannt / Known Betroffen / Affected Erledigt / Done Gut / Good Handel / Trade Jene / Those Noch nie / Never Öffentliches Gut / Public Good Öffentlichkeit / Public Viel / Much Wer / Who
I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.
Someone once asked me, 'How long does it take to do your hair.' I said, 'I don't know, I'm never there.'
How could these people in the public eye not be afraid of me, but my whole town was?
Why do I pray? Because I never know what's going to pop out of my mouth.
I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.
The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.
Happy are those who dwell apart from the harrowing tumults of public life!
Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.
You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
