Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.

The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.

The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and grandiloquence, from which we can learn nothing.

None are so seldom found alone, and are so soon tired of their own company, as those coxcombs who are on the best terms with themselves.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is about to be sold, the other to be buried.

Wealth is a relative thing since those who have little and want less are richer than those who have much but want more.