It is admirable to consider how many millions of people come into, and go out of the world, ignorant of themselves and of the world they have lived in.
Unless virtue guide us our choice must be wrong.
If men be good, government cannot be bad.
Haste makes work which caution prevents.
Experience is a safe guide.
To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.
We are too apt to love praise, but not to deserve it.
Death cannot kill what never dies.
Where thou art Obliged to speak, be sure speak the Truth: For Equivocation is half way to Lying, as Lying, the whole way to Hell.
Never marry but for love; but see that thou lov’st what is lovely.
Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.
Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.
Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.
We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.
Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.
Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.