Virtue and Happiness are Mother and Daughter.

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

Be cheerful -- the problems that worry us most are those that never arrive.

For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

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

Reading was the only amusement I allowed myself