“A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.”

“Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.”

“Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.”

“Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.”

“A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.”

“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”

“A small leak will sink a great ship.”