Gravity must be natural and simple; there must be urbanity and tenderness in it. A man must not formalize on everything. He who does so is a fool; and a grave fool is, perhaps, more injurious than a light fool.

Praise your children openly, reprove them secretly.

Win hearts, and you have all men's hands and purses.

Old age is the Outpatient's Dept of purgatory.

Gravity must be natural and simple; there must be urbanity and tenderness in it. A man must not formalize on everything. He who does so is a fool; and a grave fool is, perhaps, more injurious than a light fool.

What! All this for a song?

Don't borrow money from a neighbor or a friend, but of a stranger where, paying for it you shall hear of it no more.