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

What signifies knowing the Names, if you know not the Natures of things.

Wish not so much to live long as to live well.

In prosperous fortunes be modest and wise, The greatest may fall, and the lowest may rise: But insolent People that fall in disgrace, Are wretched and nobody pities their Case.

I early found that when I worked for myself alone, myself alone worked for me; but when I worked for others also, others worked also for me.

One of the advantages of being a 'reasonable creature' is that one can find a reason for whatever one wants to do.

Rules too soft are seldomly followed; rules too harsh are seldomly executed.