When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.

Benjamin Franklin went through life an altered man because he once paid too dearly for a penny whistle. My concern springs usually from a deeper source, to wit, from having bought a whistle when I did not want one.

It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.

Since hate poisons the soul, don't cherish enmities or grudges: avoid people who make you unhappy.

When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

To forget oneself is to be happy.