Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones.

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.

God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.

What man in his right mind would conspire his own hurt? Men are beside themselves when they transgress against their convictions.

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

If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it.

Not to be provok'd is best: But if mov'd, never correct till the fume is spent; for every stroke our fury strikes, is sure to hit our selves at last.