Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.
Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.
Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
He that hath knowledge spareth his words.
Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or thought of the course of nature; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.
Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.
I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.
People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can’t fool the neighbors.
Books speak plain when counselors blanch.
Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.