Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
A secret ceases to be a secret if it is once confided - it is like a dollar bill, once broken, it is never a dollar again.
We should make virtue our master, not our servant.
A WISE MAN never enjoys himself so much, or a FOOL so little, as when he is alone.
The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.
Pedigrees seldom improve by age; the grandson is too often a weak infringement on the grandsire's parent.