It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.

A good name is better than bags of gold.

Wit and humor belong to genius alone.

Let everyone turn himself around, and look at home, and he will find enough to do.

The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have been, but as they really were.

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.

Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.