Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.

If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.

A friend in need is a friend indeed!

If better is possible, good is not enough

Would you live with ease, Do what you ought, and not what you please.

Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.

[T]he more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer . . . [taking] away from before their eyes the greatest of all inducements to industry, frugality, and sobriety, by giving them a dependence of somewhat else than a careful accumulation during youth and health for support in age and sickness.