I believe it will be found that those who marry late are best pleased with their children; and those who marry early, with their partners.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

People seldom read a book which is given to them; and few are given. The way to spread a work is to sell it at a low price. No man will send to buy a thing that costs even sixpence without an intention to read it.

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

Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without very accurate inquiry whether it is right. It is sufficient that another is growing great in his own eyes at our expense, and assumes authority over us without our permission; for many would contentedly suffer the consequences of their own mistakes, rather than the insolence of him who triumphs as their deliverer.

There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.

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