The heart has such an influence over the understanding, that it is worth while to engage it in our interest.

Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.

A man of sense may be in haste, but can never be in a hurry.

Unlike my subject will I frame my song, It shall be witty and it shan't be long.