Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.

Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, till death separate you.

The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

God sends us the poor to try us.... And he that refuses them a little out of the great deal that God has given lays up poverty in store for his own posterity.

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.

The only fountain in the wilderness of life, where man drinks of water totally unmixed with bitterness, is that which gushes for him in the calm and shady recess of domestic life.