Virtue and Happiness are Mother and Daughter.

Silence - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.

In order for three people to keep a secret, two must be dead.

Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

Observe all men, thyself most.

If a sound body and a sound mind, which is as much as to say health and virtue, are to be preferred before all other considerations, ought not men, in choosing a business either for themselves or children, to refuse such as are unwholesome for the body, and such as make a man too dependent, too much obliged to please others, and too much subjected to their humors in order to be recommended and get a livelihood?