In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.
Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.
A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably
I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore there be any kindness I can show…let me do it now.
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.
Let the people think they govern and they will be governed
Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.
Wear none of thine own Chains; but keep free, whilst thou art free.
I will never do this, says one, yet does it: I am resolved to do this, says another; but flags upon second Thoughts: Or does it, tho’ awkwardly, for his Word’s sake: As if it were worse to break his Word, than to do amiss in keeping it.
All Excess is ill: But Drunkenness is of the worst Sort.
No pain no palm no thorns no throne no gall no glory no cross no crown.
The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs which are brief and pithy.
All excess is ill but drunkeness is of the worst sort. It spoils health dismounts the mind and unmans men. It reveals secrets is quarrelsome lascivious impudent dangerous and bad.
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 when there is no freedom. Friendship loves the free air and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.
He that does good for good’s sake seeks neither praise nor reward though sure of both at last.
If thou wouldst be happy … have an indifference for more than what is sufficient.
I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore there be any kindness I can show or any good thing I can do for any fellow being let me do it now … as I shall not pass this way again.
It were better to be of no church than to be bitter for any.
The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
A wise neuter joins with neither but uses both as his honest interest leads him.
I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore there can be any kindness I can show or any good thing I can do to any fellow human being let me do it now.
Time is what we want most but… what we use worst.
The jealous are troublesome to others but torment to themselves.
O Lord help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
Not to be provoked is best but if moved never correct till the fume is spent for every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.
No pain no palm no thorns no throne no gall no glory no cross no crown.
The smaller the drink the clearer the head and the cooler the blood.
To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious.
Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.
Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.
Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
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.
Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.