"Imitation is the sincerest of flattery."

"Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give."

"If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city."

"We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age."

"Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer."

"True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."

"If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia."

"The covers of this book are too far apart."

"Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light."

"Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves."

"'A penny for your thoughts?' 'A dollar for your death.'"

"Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in."