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.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

Necessity is our quickest excuse.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Nothing great comes without enthusiasm.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

If you would know the value of money; go, and try to borrow some! For, he that goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing! and indeed, so does he that lends to such people, when he goes to get it in again!