Silence - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.

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

The best doctor gives the least medicines.

Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.

I grew convinced that truth, sincerity and integrity in dealings between man and man were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life, and I formed written resolutions . . . to practice them ever while I lived.

Plough deep while sluggards sleep.

Pity and forbearance should characterize all acts of justice.