He who would have fine guests, let him have a fine wife.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Men have solicitude about fame; and the greater share they have of it, the more afraid they are of losing it.

Such is the constitution of Man that labor may be said to be its own re-ward.

It is however, reasonable, to have perfection in our eye; that we may always advance towards it, though we know it never can be reached.

The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in a few words.

A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.