When you incline to have new clothes, look first well over the old ones, and see if you cannot shift with them another year, either by scouring, mending, or even patching if necessary. Remember, a patch on your coat, and money in your pocket, is better and more creditable, than a writ on your back, and no money to take it off.

Remember that credit is money.

The best doctor gives the least medicines.

Hot things, sharp things, sweet things, cold things All rot the teeth, and make them look like old things.

Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.

Visit your Aunt, but not every Day; and call at your Brother's, but not every night.

Reading was the only amusement I allowed myself