Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least..

The secret of all good writing is sound judgment..

Tis pleasant to have a large heap to take from..

It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves..

In a long work sleep may be naturally expected..

Those who seek for much are left in want of much. Happy is he to whom God has given, with sparing hand, as much as is enough..

A crafty knave needs no broker..

What odds does it make to the man who lives within Nature's bounds, whether he ploughs a hundred acres or a thousand?.

What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?..

What has not wasting time impaired?.

The brave are born from the brave and good. In steers and in horses is to be found the excellence of their sire; nor do savage eagles produce a peace….

Let us seize, friends, our opportunity from the day as it passes..

Strength, wanting judgment and policy to rule, overturneth itself..

Our years Glide silently away. No tears, No loving orisons repair The wrinkled cheek, the whitening hair That drop forgotten to the tomb..

I can never forget suffering and I will never forget sunset. I came home with all of it in my mind..

Money, make money; by honest means if you can; if not, by any means make money. [Lat., Rem facias rem, Recte si possis, si non, quocumque modo rem.].

Even virtue followed beyond reason's rule May stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool..

Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.].

To pile Pelion upon Olympus. [Lat., Pelion imposuisse Olympo.].

And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to dance with girls..

All powerful money gives birth and beauty. [Lat., Et genus et formam regina pecunia donat.].