By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid only of standing still.

I am in the prime of senility.

Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

It is better to let 100 criminals go free than to imprison 1 innocent man.

And as to the Cares, they are chiefly what attend the bringing up of Children; and I would ask any Man who has experienced it, if they are not the most delightful Cares in the World; and if from that Particular alone, he does not find the Bliss of a double State much greater, instead of being less than he expected.

Remember, that six pounds a year is but a groat a day.

Lose no time; be always employed in something useful.