Eaten bread is forgotten.

Serving one's own passions is the greatest slavery.

Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

Thou oughtest to be nice, even to Superstition, in keeping thy Promises; and therefore thou shouldst be equally cautious in making them.

Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched.

Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.