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.

From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.

The honest Man takes Pains, and then enjoys Pleasures; the knave takes Pleasure, and then suffers Pains.

He that drinks his Cyder alone, let him catch his Horse alone.

Epitaph on a scolding wife by her husband: Here my poor Bridget's corpse doth lie, she is at rest - and so am I!

In Truth I found myself incorrigible with respect to Order; and now I am grown old, and my Memory bad, I feel very sensibly the want of it.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.