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.
He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.
A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.
Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.
First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.
Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all.
One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.
A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.
He’s my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
A good friend is my nearest relation.
There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.