Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.
The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune.
They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.
Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope.
To be like Christ is to be a Christian.
It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.
Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.
No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
He that lives to forever, never fears dying.
Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.
He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.
Men must be governed by God, or they will be ruled by tyrants.
To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.
All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.
Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Kings in this should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.
Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.
In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.
Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.
We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
The public must and will be served.
True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.
To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.
Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.