Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one make you but even with him; forgiving it sets you above him.
A penny saved is twopence dear; A pin a day 's a groat a year.
I am lord of myself, accountable to none.
Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.
I have sometimes almost wished it had been my destiny to be born two or three centuries hence.
Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.