Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.

A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal delicacy, propriety, and judgment?

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination.

Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.

No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.

Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.