Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands

There is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

There is a cunning which we in England call the rning of the cat in the pan.

The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer.

Rebellions of the belly are the worst.

The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.