A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith.

When we are old, our friends find it difficult to please us, and are less concerned whether we be pleased or not.

Under the rose, since here are none but friends, To own the truth we have some private ends.

It may pass for a maxim in State, that the administration cannot be placed in too few hands, nor the legislature in too many.

Everybody wants to live forever, but nobody wants to grow old.

hoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumors so little founded on truth Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

This single Stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected Corner, I once knew in a flourishing State in a Forest: It was full of Sap, full of Leaves, and full of Boughs: But now, in vain does the busy Art of Man pretend to vie with Nature, by tying that withered Bundle of Twigs to its sapless Trunk: It is at best but the Reverse of what it was; a Tree turned upside down, the Branches on the Earth, and the Root in the Air.