1. “Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.”
2. “There is nothing we receive with so reluctance as advice.”
3. “A man’ first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.”
4. “A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.”
5. “A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections.”
6. “Better to die die ten thousands deaths than wound my honor.”
7. “Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.”
8. “A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.”
9. “With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.”
10. “Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.”
11. “A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.”
12. “There is no defense against criticism except obscurity.”
13. “The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.”
14. “The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.”
15. “Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.”
16. “Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.”
17. “Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.”
18. “Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”
19. “Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.”
20. “Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.”
21. “The utmost extent of man’s knowledge , is to know that he knows nothing.”
22. “Man is distinguished from all other creatures. by the faculty of laughter.”
23. “Jesters do often prove prophets.”
24. “Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.”
25. “Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power of dominion.”
26. “Charity is a virtue of the heart and not of the hands.”
27. “Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and there it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.”
28. “Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.”
29. “The most violent appetite in all creatures are lust and hunger, the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.”
30. “To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny.”
