Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
Applause waits on success.
Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.
The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.
If you desire many things, many things will seem few.
Hunger is the best pickle.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.
He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.
I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
All would live long, but none would be old.
Fish and visitors smell in three days.
Would you live with ease, Do what you ought, and not what you please.
After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy.
To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.
For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head.
Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.
Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.