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

A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang.

By the word simplicity, is not always meant folly or ignorance; but often, pure and upright Nature, free from artifice, craft or deceitful ornament.

If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.

If you would not be forgotten, do things worth remembering.

A nod from a lord is a breakfast for a fool.

Be not sick too late, nor well too soon