If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Spare when young, and spend when old.

Wherever desirable superfluities are imported, industry is excited, and thereby plenty is produced. Were only necessaries permitted to be purchased, men would work no more than was necessary for that purpose.

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.

Enjoy the present hour, be mindful of the past; And neither fear nor wish the Approaches of the last. Learn of the skillful: He that teaches himself, hath a fool for his master.

Often I sit up in my room reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned early in the morning, lest it should be missed or wanted.