Love well, whip well.
A lady asked Dr. Franklin Well Doctor what have we got a republic or a monarchy – “A republic,” replied the Doctor, “if you can keep it.”
Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices.
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.
Lawyers, Preachers, and Tomtits Eggs, there are more of them hatch’d than come to perfection.
He that takes a wife, takes care.
Anger and folly walk cheek by sole.
God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter.
That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved.
Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith.
The man who does things makes mistakes, but he doesn’t make the biggest mistake of all-doing nothing.
Those who are fear’d, are hated.
At the working man’s house, hunger looks in but dares not enter.
Not to oversee workmen is to leave them your purse open.
Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty.
Squeamish stomachs cannot eat without pickles.
I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
Lend money to an enemy, and thou wilt gain him; lend to a friend, and thou wilt lose him.
It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.