Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Get what you can, and what you get hold; 'tis the Stone that will turn all your Lead into Gold.

The happy State of Matrimony is, undoubtedly, the surest and most lasting Foundation of Comfort and Love . . . the Cause of all good Order in the World, and what alone preserves it from the utmost Confusion.

There was great difference in persons; and discretion did not always accompany years, nor was youth always without it.

If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.

Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.