The laboring man and the artificer knows what every hour of his time is worth, and parts not with it but for the full value.

It was a very proper answer to him who asked why any map should be delighted with beauty, that it was a question that none but a blind man could ask; since any beautiful object doth so much attract the sight of all men, that it is in no man's power not to be pleased with it.

The laboring man and the artificer knows what every hour of his time is worth, and parts not with it but for the full value.

If we did not take great pains, and were not at great expense to corrupt our nature, our nature would never corrupt us.

Counsel and conversation is a good second education, that improves all the virtue and corrects all the vice of the former, and of nature itself.

There is no art or science that is too difficult for industry to attain to; it is the gift of tongues, and makes a man understood and valued in all countries, and by all nations; it is the philosopher's stone, that turns all metals, and even stones, into gold, and suffers not want to break into its dwelling; it is the northwest passage, that brings the merchant's ships as soon to him as he can desire: in a word, it conquers all enemies, and makes fortune itself pay contribution.

Friendship hath the skill and observation of the best physician, the diligence and vigilance of the best nurse, and the tenderness and patience of the best mother.