I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

I would advise you to read with a pen in your hand and enter in a little book short hints of what you feel that is common or that may be useful; for this will be the best method of imprinting such portcullis in your memory.

Ill customs and bad advice are seldom forgotten.

Eat to live, not live to eat.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Take it from Richard, poor and lame, What's begun in anger ends in shame.