I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, make the execution of that same plan his sole study and business.

Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.

The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished.

Men and Melons are hard to know.

The devil wipes his breech with poor folks' pride.

If a sound body and a sound mind, which is as much as to say health and virtue, are to be preferred before all other considerations, ought not men, in choosing a business either for themselves or children, to refuse such as are unwholesome for the body, and such as make a man too dependent, too much obliged to please others, and too much subjected to their humors in order to be recommended and get a livelihood?

A word to the wise is enough, and many words won't fill a bushel.