Are you angry that others disappoint you? Remember you cannot depend upon yourself.

For over 1,700 years, the Jews have been bewailing their sad fate in that they have been exiled from their homeland, as they call Palestine. But gentlemen, did the world give it to them in fee simple, they would at once find some reason for not returning. Why? Because they are vampires, and vampires do not live on vampires. They cannot live only among themselves. They must subsist on Christians and other people not of their race.

In order for three people to keep a secret, two must be dead.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be, as Poor Richard says, “the greatest prodigality'; since, as he elsewhere tells us, 'Lost time is never found again'; and 'What we call time enough always proves little enough'. Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the purpose; so by diligence shall we do more with less perplexity.

He that steals the old man's supper does him no wrong.

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.

My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity.