People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.

I could hardly feel much confidence in a man who had never been imposed upon.

One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains; much trouble, by taking trouble.

Friendship is Love with jewels on, but without either flowers or veil.

Who is fit to govern others? He who governs himself. You might as well have said: nobody.

Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.

The ablest writer is only a gardener first, and then a cook: his tasks are, carefully to select and cultivate his strongest and most nutritive thoughts; and when they are ripe, to dress them, wholesomely, and yet so that they may have a relish.