An honest Man will receive neither Money nor Praise that is not his due.

Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes

He's gone, and forgot nothing but to say farewell to his creditors

There's many witty men whose brains can't fill their bellies.

Often I sit up in my room reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned early in the morning, lest it should be missed or wanted.

The happy State of Matrimony is, undoubtedly, the surest and most lasting Foundation of Comfort and Love . . . the Cause of all good Order in the World, and what alone preserves it from the utmost Confusion.

... there is much truth in the Italian saying, 'Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.'