If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.

Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart.

Irony is to the high-bred what billingsgate is to the vulgar; and when one gentleman thinks another gentleman an ass, he does not say it point-blank, he implies it in the politest terms he can invent.

To be happy, you must learn to forget yourself.

In these days half our diseases come from neglect of the body in overwork of the brain.

Tell me, sweet eyes, from what divinest star did ye drink in your liquid melancholy?

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.