Those who laugh often never grow old.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Don't cry over spilled milk

We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride and folly than we are taxed by government.

What signifies Philosophy that does not apply to some Use? May we not learn from hence, that black Clothes are not so fit to wear in a hot Sunny Climate or Season, as white ones; because in such Cloaths the Body is more heated by the Sun when we walk abroad, and are at the same time heated by the Exercise, which double Heat is apt to bring on putrid dangerous Fevers? The Soldiers and Seamen, who must march and labour in the Sun, should in the East or West Indies have an Uniform of white?

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.