If you give up your freedom for safety, you don't deserve either one

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it.

Silence - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.

There never was a good knife made of bad steel.

Often I sit up in my room reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned early in the morning, lest it should be missed or wanted.

Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.

Men differ daily about things which are subject to sense, is it likely then they should agree about things invisible.