"He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them."

"It is foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend as upon the chastity of a wife."

"It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done."

"Silence propagates itself and the longer talk has been suspended the more difficult it is to find anything to say."

"Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle."

"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."

"Perhaps the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in a few words.We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because, for a time, they are not remembered; and he may therefore be justly numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to recur habitually to the mind."

"If the man who turnips cries Cry not when his father dies 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father."

"Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity."

"The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow."

"No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction."

"Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life."

"Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks."

"No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments."

"The true strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small."

"Exercise is labor without weariness."

"Whoever thou art that, not content with a moderate condition, imaginest happiness in royal magnificence, and dreamest that command or riches can feed the appetite of novelty with perpetual gratifications, survey the Pyramids, and confess thy folly!"

"The true art of memory is the art of attention."

"A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man because he has both enjoyments."

"For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner."

"(Adversity is) the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself being especially free from admirers then."

"A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice."

"Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again."

"Man is not weak - knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength."

"Example is more efficacious than precept."

"NE'TWORK: Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.......RETI'CULATED: Made of network; formed with interstitial vacuities."

"There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable that I would not rather know it than not know it."

"The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not obliged to speak the truth."

"There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible."

"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful."

"A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still."

"Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble."

"Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed."

"In all pleasure hope is a considerable part."

"A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table than when his wife talks Greek."

"It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust."

"Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help?"

"There is no matter what children should learn first, any more than what leg you should put into your breeches first. Sir, you may stand disputing which is best to put in first, but in the meantime your backside is bare. Sire, while you stand considering which of two things you should teach your child first, another boy has learn't 'em both."

"Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you."

"There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed to trace our own progress in existence by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow."

"When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation."

"The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking."

"Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other."

"Shame arises from the fear of man conscience from the fear of God."

"The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it."

"None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence."

"All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it."

"That friendship may be at once fond and lasting there must not only be equal virtue on each part but virtue of the same kind not only the same end must be proposed but the same means must be approved by both."

"I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual."

"If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle."