 Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age. |
| May you live every day of your life. |
| Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction. |
| He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue. |
| Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age. |
| Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want. |
| As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense. |
| Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride. |
| Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly. |
| I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. |
| For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. |
| What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly. |
| A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. |
| It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not. |
| Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. |
| The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. |
| The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier. |
| No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience. |
| I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning. |
| Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken. |
