Let thy discontents be thy secrets

The good will of the governed will be starved if not fed by the good deeds of the governors.

This modesty in a sect is perhaps a singular instance in the history of mankind, every other sect supposing itself in possession of all truth, and that those who differ are so far in the wrong ; like a man traveling in foggy weather, those at some distance before him on the road he sees wrapped up in the fog, as well as those behind him, and also the people in the fields on each side, but near him all appears clear, tho' in truth he is as much in the fog as any of them.

Plough deep while sluggards sleep.

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

Laws without morals are in vain.

Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one make you but even with him; forgiving it sets you above him.