Eaten bread is forgotten.
Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.
A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.
Better a tooth out than always aching.
He that hopes no good fears no ill.
Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.
Govern thy life and thy thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other.
We have all forgot more than we remember.
Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.
With devotion’s visage and pious action we do sugar o’er the devil himself.
Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched.
Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.
Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
The more wit the less courage.
The worse the passage the more welcome the port.
You gazed at the moon and fell in the gutter.
Cruelty is a tyrant that’s always attended with fear.
Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
Great is the difference betwixt a man’s being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.