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

“He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes books.”

“A man being sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps thro' fear of being thought to have but little.”

“He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.”

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

“If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.”

“A man must have a good deal of vanity who believes, and a good deal of boldness who affirms, that all the doctrines he holds are true, and all he rejects are false.”