In Truth I found myself incorrigible with respect to Order; and now I am grown old, and my Memory bad, I feel very sensibly the want of it.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.

Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one.

Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.

He that takes a wife, takes care

None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.