Don't have any more secrets than you can keep yourself.

Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

Our continual desire for praise ought to convince us of our mortality, if nothing else will.

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.

Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.

I would much rather always look forward to the time when I am going to ride in a carriage, than to look back on the time when I used to.