I am the laziest man in the world. I invented all those things to save myself from toil.

Success has ruined many a man.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

In success be moderate. Humility makes great men twice honourable.

Annual giving is the custom of making a gift-a-year to an institution in which one has faith.

Reading was the only amusement I allowed myself