The traveler that resolutely follows a rough and winding path will sooner reach the end of his journey than he that is always changing his direction, and wastes the hour of daylight in looking for smoother ground and shorter passages.

If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father.

No man can have much kindness for him by whom he does not believe himself esteemed, and nothing so evidently proves esteem as imitation.

I will take no more physick, not even my opiates; for I have prayed that I may render up my soul to God unclouded.

It is a maxim that no man was ever enslaved by influence while he was fit to be free.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost must always end in pain.