Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure..

The States acceded to the Union..

When religion is good, it will take care of itself. When it is not able to take care of itself, and God does not see fit to take care of it, so that ….

Thou can'st not joke an enemy into a friend, but thou may'st a friend into an enemy..

All cats are gray in the dark..

Oh the wonderful knowledge to be found in the stars. Even the smallest things are written there ... if you had but skill to read..

Genius without education is like silver in the mine..

I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," etc., but some vain thing immediately followed..

It is observable that God has often called men to places of dignity and honor when they have been busy in the honest employment of their vocation..

When passion rules, she never rules wisely..

Love your Neighbour; yet don't pull down your Hedge..

Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults..

Much Virtue in Herbs, little in Men..

Eat not to dullness, drink not to elevation..

He's a fool that makes his doctor his heir..

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife..

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it..

That man alone loves himself rightly who procures the greatest possible good to himself through the whole of his existence and so pursues pleasure as….

I consent Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure, that it is not the best..

But in this world nothing is sure but death and taxes. [Fr., Mais dons ce monde, il n'y a rien d'assure que le mort et les impots.].

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace. When will mankind be conv….