Try to be of some use to others.

Recreation is intended to the mind as whetting is to the scythe, to sharpen the edge of it, which otherwise would grow dull and blunt,--as good no scythe as no edge.

Nothing fools people as much as extreme passion.

It is not the bee's touching on the flowers that gathers the honey, but her abiding for a time upon them, and drawing out the sweet.

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.

And, if I were so low that I accounted myself the worst of all, yet some would account themselves in worse case.

Garments that have once one rent in them are subject to be torn on every nail, and glasses that are once cracked are soon broken; such is man's good name once tainted with just reproach.