Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

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

Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

Most men are more willing to indulge in easy vices than to practise laborious virtues.

Other things may be seized by might, or purchased with money, but knowledge is to be gained only by study, and study to be prosecuted only in retirement.