Oh the wonderful knowledge to be found in the stars. Even the smallest things are written there ... if you had but skill to read.

If you want to be loved, love and be loveable.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

Did not strong connections draw me elsewhere, I believe Scotland would be the country I would choose to end my days in.

Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so; It is not so. It is so; it is not so.

Money makes money. And the money that makes money makes more money.

If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas. This sum may be soon spent, the regret only remaining of having foolishly consumed it; but in the other case, he escapes the frequent vexation of waiting for barbers, and of their sometimes dirty fingers, offensive breaths, and dull razors.