Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.

When we are in the company of sensible men, we ought to be doubly cautious of talking too much, lest we lose two good things, their good opinion and our own improvement; for what we have to say we know, but what they have to say we know not.

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Every person has two educations: one which he receives from others, and one more important, which he gives himself.

Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.

There are male as well as female gossips.