I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.

There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.

It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.

It is essential to make oneself used to putting up with a little. Even the wealthy and the well provided are continually met and frustrated by difficult times and situations. It is in no man's power to have whatever he wants; but he has it in his power not to wish for what he hasn't got, and cheerfully make the most of the things that do come his way.

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

It passes in the world for greatness of mind, to be perpetually giving and loading people with bounties; but it is one thing to know how to give and another thing not to know how to keep. Give me a heart that is easy and open, but I will have no holes in it; let it be bountiful with judgment, but I will have nothing run out of it I know not how.

He who blushes at riding in a rattletrap, will boast when he rides in style.