If you want to be loved, love and be loveable.

I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else.

Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.

I would advise you to read with a pen in your hand and enter in a little book short hints of what you feel that is common or that may be useful; for this will be the best method of imprinting such portcullis in your memory.

The best tranquilizer is a clear conscience.

Quacks are the greatest liars in the world except their patients.

Fiction or fable allures to instruction.