“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”

“A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.”

“He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.”

“Money is a great servant but a bad master.”

“There arises from a bad and inapt formation of words, a wonderful obstruction to the mind.”

“Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.”

“For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.”