Man is a tool-making animal

Let every one ascertain his special business and calling, and then stick to it if he wants to be successful.

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.

Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop of reason.

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

Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly.

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.