There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharoah - get first all the people's money, then all their lands, and then make them and their children servants forever.

To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light.

Write with the learned, pronounce with the vulgar.

Ill customs and bad advice are seldom forgotten.

Display is as false as it is costly.

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all things easy.

A lighthouse is more useful than a church.