- A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.
- Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.
- He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
- That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.
- To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
- No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
- Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.
- When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
- What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
- I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
- I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
- The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
- The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
- Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
- To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
- Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
- Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.
- A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
- You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
- The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
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