Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.
Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price.
It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on.
Eat to live, don’t live to eat.
Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the be.
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
Half-wits talk much, but say little.
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.
O powerful goodness! Bountiful Father! Merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolution to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the only return in my power for thy continual favours to me.
Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!
Be not sick too late, nor well too soon.
Perhaps I’m too saucy or provoking?
Don’t cry over spilled milk.
Do not fear mistakes.
There will be plenty of time to sleep once you are dead.
On the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet as I was, by the endeavor, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been had I not attempted it.
A man must have a good deal of vanity who believes, and a good deal of boldness who affirms, that all the doctrines he holds are true, and all he rejects are false.
Reading was the only amusement I allowed myself.
Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful.
To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind.