Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads.

Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.

Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Dispatch is the soul of business, and nothing contributes more to Dispatch than Method.

Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends