The proof of gold is fire.

If we can sleep without dreaming, it is well that painful dreams are avoided. If, while we sleep, we can have any pleasing dreams, it is as the French say, tant gagne, so much added to the pleasure of life.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

The man who does things makes mistakes, but he doesn't make the biggest mistake of all-doing nothing.

If you would not be forgotten, do things worth remembering.

And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

Use now and then a little Exercise a quarter of an Hour before Meals, as to swing a Weight, or swing your Arms about with a small Weight in each Hand; to leap, or the like, for that stirs the Muscles of the Breast.