A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
If you ride a horse, sit close and tight, if you ride a man, sit easy and light.
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason: The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out your Candle.
If all but myself were blind, I should want neither a fine house nor fine furniture.
The rotten apple spoils his companion.
The Body of B. Franklin, Printer Like the Cover of an old Book Its Contents turn out And Stript of its Lettering & Guilding Lies here. Food for Worms For, it will as he believed appear once more In a new and more elegant Edition corrected and improved By the Author.