Before I dismiss this affair of eating and drinking, let me beseech you to resolve to free yourselves from the slavery of the tea and coffee and other slop-kettle, if, unhappily, you have been bred up in such slavery.
The smallness of our desires may contribute reasonably to our wealth.
Praise the child, and you make love to the mother.
Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.
However roguish a man may be, he always loves to deal with an honest man.
Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think what you shall write.