| We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love on another. |
| May you live every day of your life. |
| The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. |
| How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so much as take warning |
| Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly. |
| May you live all the days of your life. |
| Argument is the worst sort of conversation. |
| A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. |
| Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want. |
| Faith he must make his stories shorter Or change his comrades once a quarter. |
| Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. |
| As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense. |
| It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of. |
| When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. |
| Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping. |
| It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. |
| I row after health like a waterman... |
| One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid. |
| No wise man ever wished to be younger. |
