The things of this world take up too much of my time, of which indeed I have too little left, to undertake anything like a reformation in religion.

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

I am what I am and that's all that I am and if I'm supposed to be somebody else, why do I look like me?

Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily cracked, and never well mended.

At the working man’s house, hunger looks in but dares not enter.

Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.