Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

Poverty, Poetry, and new Titles of Honor, make Men ridiculous

But they have two other Rights; those of sitting when they please, and as long as they please, in which methinks they have the advantage of your Parliament; for they cannot be dissolved by the Breath of a Minister, or sent packing as you were the other day, when it was your earnest desire to have remained longer together.

The way to secure peace is to be prepared for war. They that are on their guard, and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked, than the supine, secure, and negligent.

When in doubt, don't.

Nothing preaches better than the act.