If you watch your pennies, the pounds will take care of themselves.

If a man would reap praise, you must sow the seeds, gentle words and useful deeds.

There is nothing wrong with retirement as long as one doesn't allow it to interfere with one's work.

When you are good to others, you are best to yourself.

It is the will of God and Nature that these mortal bodies be laid aside, when the soul is to enter into real life; 'tis rather an embrio state, a preparation for living; a man is not completely born until he be dead: Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals?

Write with the learned, pronounce with the vulgar.

I have sometimes almost wished it had been my destiny to be born two or three centuries hence.