Those who prefer security to liberty deserve neither.

Marry your son when you will, but you daughter when you can.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.

If we lose our Money, it gives us some Concern. If we are cheated or robb'd of it, we are angry: But Money lost may be found; what we are robb'd of may be restored: The Treasure of Time once lost, can never be recovered; yet we squander it as tho' 'twere nothing worth, or we had no Use for it.

We can defer, yet time is most certainly not.

Don't think so much of your own Cunning, as to forget other Men's; a Cunning Man is overmatched by a cunning Man and a Half.

Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.