He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

Hear reason, or she’ll make you feel her.

Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.