At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

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

We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

The busy man has few idle visitors; to the boiling pot the flies come not.