Sense shines with double lustre when set in humility.

[I]t is impossible that any people of government should ever prosper, where men render not unto God, that which is God's, as well as to Caesar, that which is Caesar's.

All excess is ill; but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous, and mad.

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

Death cannot kill what never dies.

The usefullest truths are plainest; and while we keep to them, our differences cannot rise high.

We are apt to be very pert at censuring others, where we will not endure advice.