He that, when he should not, spends too much, shall, when he would not, have too little to spend.

When two friends part they should lock up one another's secrets, and interchange their keys.

Some are so uncharitable as to think all women bad, and others are so credulous as to believe they are all good. All will grant her corporeal frame more wonderful and more beautiful than man's. And can we think God would put a worse soul into a better body?

Honesty is a warrant of far more safety than fame.

The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed up in these two - common sense and perseverance.

Riches, though they may reward virtues, yet they cannot cause them; he is much more noble who deserves a benefit than he who bestows one.

We pick our own sorrows out of the joys of other men, and from their sorrows likewise we derive our joys.