No man hates him at whom he can laugh.
True enjoyments also keep people from vice.
Security will produce danger.
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.
It was said of Euripides, that every verse was a precept; and it may be said of Shakespeare, that from his works may be collected a system of civil and economical prudence.