Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

Wherefore, brethren, let us be careful neither to out-go our guide, nor yet loiter behind him; since he that makes haste, may miss his way, and he that stays behind, lose his guide.

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.

Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.

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.