If you have a bald head don't walk out in the sun because you will get burned.

If the elbow had been placed closer to the hand, the forearm would have been too short to bring the glass to the mouth; and if it had been closer to the shoulder, the forearm would have been so long that it would have carried the glass beyond the mouth.

Hear no ill of a friend, nor speak any of an enemy.

There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry.

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.

The only certain things in life are death and taxes!

Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily cracked, and never well mended.