Misgive that you may not mistake.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.

Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well-established authors.

If all our wishes were gratified, most of our pleasures would be destroyed.

All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense of another, involves a breach of the tenth commandment.

Some persons follow the dictates of their conscience only in the same sense in which a coachman may be said to follow the horses he is driving.