The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.

I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or water.

What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Ingratitude is amongst them a capital crime, as we read it to have been in some other countries: for they reason thus; that whoever makes ill-returns to his benefactor, must needs be a common enemy to the rest of the mankind, from where he has received no obligations and therefore such man is not fit to live.

I can discover no political evil in suffering bullies, sharpers, and rakes, to rid the world of each other by a method of their own; where the law hath not been able to find an expedient.

The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one will not reform it.

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.