Thou oughtest to be nice, even to Superstition, in keeping thy Promises; and therefore thou shouldst be equally cautious in making them.

Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.

Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.

A good garden may have some weeds.

Despair gives courage to a coward.

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched.