Contemplation is necessary to generate an object, but action must propagate it.

By gaming we lose both our time and treasure - two things most precious to the life of man.

Business is the salt of life, which not only gives a grateful smack to it, but dries up those crudities that would offend, preserves from putrefaction and drives off all those blowing flies that would corrupt it.

Fear, if it be not immoderate, puts a guard about us that does watch and defend us; but credulity keeps us naked, and lays us open to all the sly assaults of ill-intending men: it was a virtue when man was in his innocence; but since his fall, it abuses those that own it.

Men are like wine,--not good before the lees of clownishness be settled.

Knowledge is the treasure of the mind, but discretion is the key to it, without which it is useless. The practical part of wisdom is the best.

The irresolute man flecks from one egg to another, so hatches nothing.