Wait on the Lord, and be of good cheer, and he shall strengthen thy heart; wait, I say, on the Lord.
Books are useful only to such whose genius are suitable to the subject of them.
It is as reasonable to represent one kind of imprisonment by another as it is to represent anything that really exists by that which exists not.
It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
A rich man is an honest man – no thanks to him; for he would be a double knave, to cheat mankind when he had no need of it: he has no occasion to press upon his integrity, nor so much as to touch upon the borders of dishonesty.
Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.
Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
It is never too late to be wise.
Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.
The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.
Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm.
No shoots, says Friday, no yet, me shoot now, me no kill; me stay, give you one more laugh.
I hear much of people’s calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent.
It happen’d one Day about Noon going towards my Boat, I was exceedingly surpriz’d with the Print of a Man’s naked Foot on the Shore.
Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.
Actions receive their tincture from the times, And as they change are virtues made or crimes.