Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.

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

An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.

Be ashamed to catch yourself idle.

To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance must be in one view rather pleasing, viz., that though we are to live forever we may be continually amused and delighted with learning something new.

Sloth and Silence are a Fool's Virtues

'Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury.