The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.

One who has not only the four S’s, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example… Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild,...

I believe there’s no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Thou camest out of thy mother’s belly without government, thou hast liv’d hitherto without government, and thou mayst be carried to thy long home without government, when it shall please the Lord. How many people...

Tis a dainty thing to command, though twere but a flock of sheep.

A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity.

Those who’ll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

By the street of by-and-by, one arrives at the house of never.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of...

The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.