The best tranquilizer is a clear conscience.
Visit your Aunt, but not every Day; and call at your Brother's, but not every night.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
Nothing in the world is certain except for death and taxes.
If you wou'd be reveng'd of your enemy, govern your self
I think with you, that nothing is of more importance for the public weal, than to form and train up youth in wisdom and virtue. Wise and good men are in my opinion, the strength of the state; more so than riches or arms.