The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.

There is no bore like a clever bore.

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

Be virtuous and you will be vicious.