There will be plenty of time to sleep once you are dead

Experience is the best teacher, but a fool will learn from no other.

The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose.

My List of Virtues contain'd at first but twelve: But a Quaker Friend having kindly inform'd me that I was generally thought proud; that my Pride show'd itself frequently in Conversation; that I was not content with being in the right when discussing any Point, but was overbearing & rather insolent; of which he convinc'd me by mentioning several Instances; - I determined endeavouring to cure myself ..., and I added Humility to my List, giving an extensive Meaning to the Word.

Hunger is the best pickle.

There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

I am what I am and that's all that I am and if I'm supposed to be somebody else, why do I look like me?