"The great security of all is to eat little and to drink nothing that intoxicates. He that eats till ..." — William Cobbett

Never - no, not for one moment - believe that any human being, with sense in his skull, will love or respect you on account of your fine or costly clothes.

Endless are the instances of men of bright parts and high spirit having been, by degrees, rendered powerless and despicable by their imaginary wants.

To be without sure and safe friends in the world makes life not worth having; and whom can we be so sure of as of our children?

It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.