We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.

If we lose our Money, it gives us some Concern. If we are cheated or robb'd of it, we are angry: But Money lost may be found; what we are robb'd of may be restored: The Treasure of Time once lost, can never be recovered; yet we squander it as tho' 'twere nothing worth, or we had no Use for it....

Hereafter, if you should observe an occasion to give your officers and friends a little more praise than is their due, and confess more fault than you can justly be charged with, you will only become the sooner for it, a great captain.

He gives twice that gives soon, i.e., he will soon be called to give again.

We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport.

Everybody's human-everybody makes mistakes. If you laugh it off and keep going and try to give it your best the next time around, people respect that.

Who pleasure gives, Shall joy receive

It is better to take many injuries than to give one.

Why should I give my Readers bad lines of my own when good ones of other People's are so plenty?