The borrower is a slave to the lender and the debtor to the creditor.
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
Philosophy as well as foppery often changes fashion.
My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which I read, and have since often regretted that, at a time when I had such a thirst for knowledge, more proper books had not fallen in my way since it was now resolved I should not be a clergyman.
Thinking aloud is a habit which is responsible for most of mankind's misery.
Distrust and caution are the parents of security.