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

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

The human mind, in proportion as it is deprived of external resources, sedulously labors to find within itself the means of happiness, learns to rely with confidence on its own exertions, and gains with greater certainty the power of being happy.

When ill news comes too late to be serviceable to your neighbor, keep it to yourself.

A good name will wear out; a bad one may be turned; a nickname lasts forever.

Those beings only are fit for solitude who are like nobody, and are liked by nobody.

Economy is an excellent lure to betray people into expense.