He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.
Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs.
Govern thy Life and Thoughts, as if the whole World were to see the one, and read the other.
We have all forgot more than we remember.
Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.
Thou oughtest to be nice, even to Superstition, in keeping thy Promises; and therefore thou shouldst be equally cautious in making them.