Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Hear no ill of a friend, nor speak any of an enemy.

Do not, however, mistake me. It is not to my good friend's heresy that I impute his honesty. On the contrary, 'tis his honesty that brought upon him the character of a heretic.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and therefore the state in which one is most likely to find solid happiness.

Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small, and the want great

Proclaim not all though knowest, or all though owest.

A people who chose security over liberty will receive neither nor deserve either.