A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours.

In short, I conceive that great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of the value of things, and by their giving too much for their whistles.

I think with you, that nothing is of more importance for the public weal, than to form and train up youth in wisdom and virtue. Wise and good men are in my opinion, the strength of the state; more so than riches or arms.

A traveller should have a hog's nose, a deer's legs, and an ass's back.

As sore places meet most rubs, proud folks meet most affronts.

I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," etc., but some vain thing immediately followed.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.