Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress. |
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. |
Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt. |
The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears. |
People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors. |
God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave. |
Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God. |
When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative. |
Friends are thieves of time. |
A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open. |
In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. |
Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall. |
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. |
It is impossible to love and to be wise. Topics: Love |
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. |
The great end of life is not knowledge but action. |
There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little. |
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other. Topics: Death |
He that hath knowledge spareth his words. |
Opportunity makes a thief. |