Kings have long arms, but Misfortune longer: let none think themselves out of her reach.
Great talkers, little doers.
O Lazy bones! Dost thou think God would have given thee arms and legs, if he had not design’d thou should’st use them?
Patience in Market, is worth Pounds in a year.
What more valuable than Gold? Diamonds. Than Diamonds? Virtue.
Proclaim not all though knowest, or all though owest.
For Age and Want save while you may; No morning Sun lasts a whole day.
Don’t think so much of your own Cunning, as to forget other Men’s; a Cunning Man is overmatched by a cunning Man and a Half.
He that doth what he should not, shall feel what he would not.
Suspicion may be no fault, but showing it may be a great one.
Life with Fools consists in Drinking; with the wise Man, living’s Thinking.
The honest Man takes Pains, and then enjoys Pleasures; the knave takes Pleasure, and then suffers Pains.
Get what you can, and what you get hold; ’tis the Stone that will turn all your Lead into Gold.
An honest Man will receive neither Money nor Praise that is not his due.
I fully agree with General Washington, that we must protect this young nation from an insidious influence and impenetration. The menace, gentlemen, is the Jews.
If you do not exclude them, in less than 200 years our descendants will be working in the fields to furnish them substance, while they will be in the counting houses rubbing their hands. I warn you, gentlemen, if you do not exclude Jews for all time, your children will curse you in your graves.
The only time not wasted is wasted time.
Your argument is sound, nothing but sound.
A virtuous heretic shall be saved before a wicked Christian.
It’s the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.