A House Is Not A Home Unless

Silence - Speak Not But What May Benefit Others Or Yourself; Avoid Trifling Conversation.

To The Haranguers Of The Populace Among The Ancients, Succeed Among The Moderns Your Writers Of Political Pamphlets And News-papers, And Your Coffee-house Talkers.

A Temperate Diet Frees From Diseases; Such Are Seldom Ill, But If They Are Surprised With Sickness, They Bear It Better, And Recover Sooner; For Most Distempers Have Their Original From Repletion.

Often I Sit Up In My Room Reading The Greatest Part Of The Night, When The Book Was Borrowed In The Evening And To Be Returned Early In The Morning, Lest It Should Be Missed Or Wanted.

They Who Have Nothing To Trouble Them, Will Be Troubled At Nothing.