 A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else. |
| Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen. |
| Love is a passion that hath friends in the garrison. |
| Many men swallow the being cheated, but no man can ever endure to chew it. |
| Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side. |
| A husband without faults is a dangerous observer. |
| They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money. |
| Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no. |
| Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much. |
| When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters. |
| He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things. |
| The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past. |
| No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool. |
| A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting. |
| Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes. |
| If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers. |
| A man man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner. |
| The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject. |
| There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it. |
| Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught. |
