He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.

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

Rarely use Venery but for Health or Offspring; Never to Dulness, Weakness, or the Injury of your own or another's Peace or Reputation.

I hope...that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.

Visit your Aunt, but not every Day; and call at your Brother's, but not every night.

The refusal of King George to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from clutches of the money manipulators was probably the prime cause of the revolution.

He's a fool that makes his doctor his heir.