Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.

To forget, or pretend to do so, to return a borrowed article, is the meanest sort of petty theft.

To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be useful no longer than while we are well.

The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth.

Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood.

Nobody can be taught faster than he can learn.

Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.