A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given...

Many people die at twenty five and aren’t buried until they are seventy five.

We must, indeed, all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.

A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.

Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no ambition corrupt thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollily; for a good conscience is a continual...

Lost Time is never found again.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.

We are not so sensible of the greatest Health as of the least Sickness.

It’s better to swim in the sea belowThan to swing in the air and feed the crow,Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol.

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes...

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

To find out a girl’s faults, praise her to her girlfriends.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

In all your Amours you should prefer old Women to young ones. You call this a Paradox, and demand my Reasons. They are these:1. Because as they have more Knowledge of the World and their...

If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!