Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.

There is nothing against which an old man should be so much upon his guard as putting himself to nurse.

The happiness of building lasted but a little while, for though I love to spend, I hate to be cheated; and I soon found, that to build is to be robbed.

The future is purchased by the present.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.