Eat few suppers, and you’ll need few medicines.
Trusting too much to others care is the ruin of many.
The Golden Age was never the present age.
Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting.
Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.
I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I imagine she has? Answer. Commend her among her female acquaintances.
There are no ugly loves nor handsome prisons.
He that speaks ill of the mare will buy her.
Getting into debt, is getting into a tanglesome net.
Keep flax from fire, and youth from gaming.
Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that sits is easily shot.
What signifies knowing the Names, if you know not the Natures of things.
When you speak to a man, look on his eyes; when he speaks to you, look on his mouth.
Success has ruined many a man.
The used key is always bright.
Is there anything men take more pains about than to render themselves unhappy?
My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs through views of private interest; but to go straight forward in doing what appears to me right at the time, leaving the consequences with Providence.
There is always room for the man of force.
Men differ daily about things which are subject to sense, is it likely then they should agree about things invisible.
The moral and religious system which Jesus Christ transmitted to us is the best the world has ever seen, or can see.