Avoid dishonest gain: no price can recompence the pangs of vice.

A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.

To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance must be in one view rather pleasing, viz., that though we are to live forever we may be continually amused and delighted with learning something new.

He that sells upon Credit expects to lose 5 per Cent. By bad Debts; therefore he charges, on all he sells upon Credit, an Advance that shall make up that Deficiency.

Don't cry over spilled milk

...it is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man if he will make a business of it.

Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one.