The church, the state, and the poor, are 3 daughters which we should maintain, but not portion off.

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that sits is easily shot.

Pain wastes the Body, Pleasures the Understanding.

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

In a discreet man's mouth, a public thing is private.