The good will of the governed will be starved if not fed by the good deeds of the governors.
Don’t halloo until you’re out of the wood.
Paintings and fightings are best seen at a distance.
When you taste honey, remember gall.
He that pays for work before it’s done, has but a pennyworth for two pence.
Neglect kills injuries, revenge increases them.
Nor eye in a letter, nor hand in a purse, nor ear in the secret of another.
Grace thou thy house and let not that grace thee.
Seek virtue and of that posest, to Providence resign the rest.
The wise and the brave dares own that he was wrong.
Neglect mending a small fault and ’twill soon be a great one.
Let our Fathers and Grandfathers be valued for their Goodness, ourselves for our own.
I believe there is one Supreme most perfect being.
But our great security lies, I think, in our growing strength.
Mankind naturally and generally love to be flatter’d.
That the vegetable creation should restore the air which is spoiled by the animal part of it, looks like a rational system, and seems to be of a piece with the rest.
The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively.
Tolerate no Uncleanliness in Body, Clothes, or Habitation.
Anger warms the invention, but overheats the oven.
Trouble Springs From Idleness.