Cheese and salt meat, should be sparingly eat.

To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.

It is a strange anomaly that men could be careful to insure their houses, their ships, their merchandise, and yet neglect to insure their lives - surely the most important of all to their families, and more subject to loss.

Suspicion may be no fault, but showing it may be a great one.

Drink does not drown care, but waters it, and makes it grow faster.

You don't get somebody to like you by doing them a favor. That only tends to build resentment over the fact that they are needy and you are not. No, you ask them to do you a favor.

A dying man can do nothing easy.