He that pays for work before it's done, has but a pennyworth for two pence.

Were the offer made true, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask should be the privilege of an author, to correct, in a second edition, certain errors of the first.

Laws without morals are in vain.

He gives twice that gives soon, i.e., he will soon be called to give again.

A virtuous and industrious people may be cheaply governed.

The key that unlocks a door is a key to keep if you want to go through that door again.

In every animal that walks upright, the deficiency of the Fluids that fill the Muscles appears first in the highest Part: The Face first grows lank and wrinkled; then the neck; then the breast and arms; the lower parts continuing to the last as plump as ever; so that covering all above with a basket, and regarding only what is below the girdle, it is impossible of two women to know an old from a young one.