When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

To get the bad customs of a country changed and new ones, though better, introduced, it is necessary first to remove the prejudices of the people, enlighten their ignorance, and convince them that their interests will be promoted by the proposed changes; and this is not the work of a day.

Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.

They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.

God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.