I think opinions should be judged by their influences and effects; and if a man holds none that tend to make him less virtuous or more vicious, it may be concluded that he holds none that are dangerous, which I hope is the case with me.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

Prodigality of Time produces Poverty of Mind as well as of Estate.

What is the recipe for successful achievement? Choose a career you love. Give it the best there is in you. Seize your opportunities. And be a member of the team.

To the haranguers of the populace among the ancients, succeed among the moderns your writers of political pamphlets and news-papers, and your coffee-house talkers.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

There's many witty men whose brains can't fill their bellies.