Thought and action are the redeeming features of our lives.

The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie.

Hunger is the mother of impatience and anger.

Do not think that your Learning and Genius, your Wit or Sprightliness, are welcome everywhere. I was once told that my Company was disagreeable because I appeared so uncommonly happy.

Suicides pay the world a bad compliment. Indeed, it may so happen that the world has been beforehand with them in incivility. Granted. Even then the retaliation is at their own expense.

Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want - the want of money.

Unless the habit leads to happiness the best habit is to contract none.