There’s small Revenge in Words, but Words may be greatly revenged.
If you’d be beloved, make yourself amiable. A true friend is the best possession.
Blame-all and Praise-all are two blockheads.
Cheese and salt meat, should be sparingly eat.
Hot things, sharp things, sweet things, cold things All rot the teeth, and make them look like old things.
Many dishes many diseases, Many medicines few cures.
Use now and then a little Exercise a quarter of an Hour before Meals, as to swing a Weight, or swing your Arms about with a small Weight in each Hand; to leap, or the like, for that stirs the Muscles of the Breast.
Love and toothache have many cures, but none infallible, except possession and dispossession.
A dying man can do nothing easy.
Reckless youth makes rueful age.
The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions, for life is a kind of chess.
Never spare the parson’s wine nor the baker’s pudding.
Take heed of the Vinegar of sweet Wine, and the Anger of Good-nature.
The punishment of murder by death is contrary to reason, and to the order and happiness of society, and contrary to divine revelation.
Why ruin a young girl’s life when you can make an older women SO very happy !
After getting the first hundred pounds, it is more easy to get the second.
It is therefore wish’d that all commerce were as free between all the nations of the world as it is between the several counties of England.
A man is not completely born until he is dead.
It is very imprudent to deprive America of any of her privileges. If her commerce and friendship are of any importance to you, they are to be had on no other terms than leaving her in the full enjoyment of her rights.
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace. When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?