“Strict punctuality is a cheap virtue.”

“We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.”

“Proclaim not all though knowest, or all though owest.”

“Display is as false as it is costly.”

“Don't overload Gratitude; if you do, she'll kick.”

“Now 'tis spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted; Suffer them now and they'll o'ergrow the garden.”

“The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover, Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank, Conceives by idleness, and nothing teems But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burrs, Losing both beauty and utility.”

“It makes me unhappy when brothers make babies and leave a young mother to be a pappy.”

“Time is the old justice that examines all such offenders, and let Time try.”

“Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.”

“Fire that's closest kept burns most of all.”

“A little fire is quickly trodden out, Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.”

“I can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another world war if the nations of the world do not concert the method by which to prevent it.”

“It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter”