"Justice is the insurance we have on our lives, and obedience is the premium we pay for it."
"Believe nothing against another but on good authority; nor report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to conceal it."
"A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him."
"To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals."
"No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown."
"True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it."
"Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise."
"To be a man's own fool is bad enough; but the vain man is everybody's."
"Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers."
"True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment."
"Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opponents."
"The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune."
"The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves."
"To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals."
"A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him."
"Believe nothing against another but on good authority; nor report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to conceal it."
"True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it."
"The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves."
"Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opponents."
"Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise."
"Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers."
"To be a man's own fool is bad enough; but the vain man is everybody's."
"Justice is the insurance we have on our lives, and obedience is the premium we pay for it."
"No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown."
"The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune."