All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.

Friendship maketh daylight in the understanding, out of darkness and confusion of thoughts.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions; therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion.

In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness.

The eye of understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or levels, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances.

Opportunity makes a thief.