Begin nothing without considering what the end may be.

While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.

Conscience is justice's best minister; it threatens, promises, rewards, and punishes and keeps all under control; the busy must attend to its remonstrances, the most powerful submit to its reproof, and the angry endure its upbraidings. While conscience is our friend all is peace; but if once offended farewell the tranquil mind.

My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can.

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

But the fruit that can fall without shaking Indeed is too mellow for me.

Only a mother knows a mother's fondness.