One today is worth two tomorrows.

Hereafter, if you should observe an occasion to give your officers and friends a little more praise than is their due, and confess more fault than you can justly be charged with, you will only become the sooner for it, a great captain.

If you want a neat wife, choose her on a Saturday.

He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of most medicines.

If we look back into history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not in their turns been persecutors, and complainers of persecution. The primitive Christians thought persecution extremely wrong in the Pagans, but practised it on one another.

The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.