I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.

Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.

Your highest female grace is silence.

The burnt child dreads the fire.

Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?

Hell itself must yield to industry.