I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I imagine she has? Answer. Commend her among her female acquaintances.

If you have a secret and tell someone everyone will know. You can only keep a secret if you don't tell anyone.

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

The riches of a country are to be valued by the quantity of labor its inhabitants are able to purchase, and not by the quantity of silver and gold they possess; which will purchase more or less labor, and therefore is more or less valuable, as is said before, according to its scarcity or plenty.

You may delay, but time will not.

The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.

We are a kind of posterity in respect to them.