No better relation than a prudent and faithful friend.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

A place for everything, everything in its place.

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter.

He that won't be counseled can't be helped. He that would have a short Lent, let him borrow Money to be repaid at Easter.

Were the offer made true, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask should be the privilege of an author, to correct, in a second edition, certain errors of the first.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.