People are best convinced by things they themselves discover.

Visit your Aunt, but not every Day; and call at your Brother's, but not every night.

Nature performs the cure, the physician takes the fee.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues, are happy if others can be depressed to a level of themselves.

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 think to hunt two hares with one dog.