Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood

Teach your child to hold his tongue, He'll learn fast enough to speak.

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Wish a miser long life, and you wish him no good.

there was great difference between persons and, discretion did not always accompany years nor was youth always with out it

'Tis better leave for an enemy at one's death, than beg of a friend in one's life