Abuses of the freedom of speech ought to be repressed, but to whom are we to commit the power of doing it?

That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved.

Epitaph on a scolding wife by her husband: Here my poor Bridget's corpse doth lie, she is at rest - and so am I!

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

I think that humanity brings much misery on itself by the false value they put on things.

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.