There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom.

The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.

If thou rise with an Appetite, thou art sure never to sit down without one.

Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.

Always remember to bound thy thoughts to the present occasion.

Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.

If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not give them to him. Such a disposition is like lighting another man's candle by one's own, which loses none of its brilliancy by what the other gains.