Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!

I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth — that God governs in the affairs of men.

Grief for a dead Wife, and a troublesome Guest, Continues to the threshold, and there is at rest; But I mean such wives as are none of the best

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

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.

Neither a Fortress nor a Maidenhead will hold out long after they begin to parley.

Flesh eating is unprovoked murder.