Nor yet be overeager in pursuit of any thing; for the mercurial too often happen to leave judgment behind them, and sometimes make work for repentance.

Anything less than full justice is cruelty.

Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.

It is certain that the most natural and human government is that of consent, for that binds freely, ... when men hold their liberty by true obedience to rules of their own making.

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.

If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not tell them to him.