“One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.”

He who gives early gives twice.

Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Great expectations are better than a poor possession.

What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman’s mind?

A Man Without Honor is Worse than Dead.

Patience and shuffle the cards.

Woman’s advice has little value, but he who won’t take it is a fool.

The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune’s spite; revive from ashes and rise.

Love not what you are but only what you may become.

A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.

That which we are capable of feeling, we are capable of saying.

It is good to live and learn.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.

The road to the inn is much better than the stay.

Every man is the son of his own works.

All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.

A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there’s more conversation.

I’m frazzled, but I’m good.

A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.

It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?

One finds great comfort in good dinners.

Already I am smiling in anticipation of the good to come.