In a discreet man's mouth, a public thing is private.

By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be growing old.

Seek virtue and of that posest, to Providence resign the rest.

Sloth and Silence are a Fool's Virtues

In New England they once thought blackbirds useless, and mischievous to the corn. They made efforts to destroy them. The consequence was, the blackbirds were diminished; but a kind of worm, which devoured their grass, and which the blackbirds used to feed on, increased prodigiously; then, finding their loss in grass much greater than their saving in corn, they wished again for their blackbirds.

From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.