The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.

In Truth I found myself incorrigible with respect to Order; and now I am grown old, and my Memory bad, I feel very sensibly the want of it.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

A light purse is a heavy curse.

I have never seen the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into Gold, but I have known the pursuit of it turn a Man's Gold into Lead.

Nothing in the world is certain except for death and taxes.