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One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.

Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.

That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency.

A liar should have a good memory.

Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.

If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.

For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.

Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.

To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.