Take Courage, Mortal; Death can’t banish thee out of the Universe.
Freedom of speech is the great bulwark of liberty; they prosper and die together: And it is the terror of traitors and oppressors, and a barrier against them. It produces excellent writers, and encourages men of fine genius.
Visit your Aunt, but not every Day; and call at your Brother’s, but not every night.
Covetousness is ever attended with solicitude and anxiety.
Mankind are dastardly when they meet with opposition.
Display is as false as it is costly.
If we can sleep without dreaming, it is well that painful dreams are avoided. If, while we sleep, we can have any pleasing dreams, it is as the French say, tant gagne, so much added to the pleasure of life.
Some of the domestic evils of drunkenness are houses without windows, gardens without fences, fields without tillage, barns without roofs, children without clothing, principles, morals or manners.
Notwithstanding my experiments with electricity the thunderbolt continues to fall under our noses and beards; and as for the tyrant, there are a million of us still engaged at snatching away his sceptre.
Fiction or fable allures to instruction.
Christians are directed to have faith in Christ, as the effectual means of obtaining the change they desire.
Do not let fancy outrun your means.
Stand firm, don’t flutter!
Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece; but it is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.
Strict punctuality is a cheap virtue.
The riches of a country are to be valued by the quantity of labor its inhabitants are able to purchase, and not by the quantity of silver and gold they possess; which will purchase more or less labor, and therefore is more or less valuable, as is said before, according to its scarcity or plenty.
Christianity commands us to pass by injuries; policy, to let them pass by us.
Many have been ruined by buying good Pennyworths.
No better relation than a prudent and faithful friend.
We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride and folly than we are taxed by government.