We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
Get pleasure out of life…as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos
Sin bravely…We will never have all the facts to make a perfect judgement, but with the aid of basic experience we must leap bravely into the future.
Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale.
Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.