Wink at small faults; remember thou hast great ones.

Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it.

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of Faults than I had imagined, but I had the Satisfaction of seeing them diminish.

Scarcely was I arrived at fifteen years of age, when, after having doubted in turn of different tenets, according as I found them combated in the different books that I read, I began to doubt of Revelation itself.

There was great difference in persons; and discretion did not always accompany years, nor was youth always without it.