Bad excuses are worse than none.

Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.

Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.

Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.

Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.