"I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first."
"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."
"Hide not your talents, they for use were made,What's a sundial in the shade?"
"How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!"
"Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five."
"Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody."