Marry your son when you will, but you daughter when you can.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

Nothing is so tiresome to one's self, as well as so odious to others, as disguise and affectation.

If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.

Chess is so interesting in itself, as not to need the view of gain to induce engaging in it; and thence it is never played for money

Slavery is ...an atrocious debasement of human nature.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.