Don't promise twice what you can do at once.

In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.

Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.

I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.

I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.

I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.

Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.