You don't get somebody to like you by doing them a favor. That only tends to build resentment over the fact that they are needy and you are not. No, you ask them to do you a favor.

I early found that when I worked for myself alone, myself alone worked for me; but when I worked for others also, others worked also for me.

Be not sick too late, nor well too soon

Clean your finger before you point at my spots.

There's many witty men whose brains can't fill their bellies.

The best way to help the poor is to make them uncomfortable in their own poverty.

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.