Mankind naturally and generally love to be flatter'd.

After all, wedlock is the natural state of man. A bachelor is not a complete human being. He is like the odd half of a pair of scissors, which has not yet found its fellow, and therefore is not even half so useful as they might be together.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

He that pursues two hares at once, does not catch one and lets the other go.

You can't tell anyone anything. You have to teach people for them to remember. Let the person experience what you are teaching and they will learn.

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

Covetousness is ever attended with solicitude and anxiety.