“Men are born with two eyes but only one tongue in order that they should see twice as much as they say.”

“Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.”

“He that studies only men, will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body. He that to what he sees, adds observation, and to what he reads, reflection, is in the right road to knowledge, provided that in scrutinizing the heart of others, he neglects not his own.”

“most men know what they hate; few what they love”

“When you have nothing to say, say nothing.”

“Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.”

“Wealth... is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants more. ”