Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.

Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.

Commerce can never be at a stop while one man wants what another can supply; and credit will never be denied, while it is likely to be repaid with profit.

Human reason borrowed many arts from the instinct of animals.

The parallel circumstances and kindred images to which we readily conform our minds are, above all other writings, to be found in the lives of particular persons, and therefore no species of writing seems more worthy of cultivation than biography.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

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