In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.

We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends; this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none.

Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all.

A married man has many cares, but a bachelor no pleasures.

Nothing odd will do long. Tristram Shandy did not last.

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

This world, where much is to be done and little to be known.