Seek virtue and of that posest, to Providence resign the rest.

A father's a treasure; a brother's a comfort; a friend is both.

Often I sit up in my room reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned early in the morning, lest it should be missed or wanted.

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

No European who has tasted savage life can afterwards bear to live in our societies.

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter.

Many dishes many diseases, Many medicines few cures.