If you would be loved love and be lovable.

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.

If a man could half his wishes he would double his Troubles.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.