A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang.

Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting.

To be humble to superiors is a duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.

Liberality is not giving much, but giving wisely.

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

Without Freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom;and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?