Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

The King's cheese is half wasted in parings: But no matter, 'tis made of the people's milk.

Virtue may not always make a Face handsome, but Vice will certainly make it ugly.

Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price.

The borrower is a slave to the lender and the debtor to the creditor.

After all, wedlock is the natural state of man. A bachelor is not a complete human being. He is like the odd half of a pair of scissors, which has not yet found its fellow, and therefore is not even half so useful as they might be together.

Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country, contentment in the house, clothes on the back, and vigor in the body.