If you desire many things, many things will seem few..

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and therefore the state in which one is most likely to find solid happiness..

Nothing's so apt to undermine your confidence in a product as knowing that the commercial selling it has been approved by the company that makes it..

Reckless youth makes rueful age..

Be not sick too late, nor well too soon.

A [desire] to abolish slavery prevails in North America, many of the Pennsylvanians have set their slaves at liberty, and [Virginia legislators] have….

Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood..

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued..

Keep flax from fire, and youth from gaming..

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead..

Don't cry over spilled milk.

The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise..

As to the kindness you mention, I wish I could have been of more service to you than I have been, but if I had, the only thanks that I should desire ….

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up..

In free governments the rulers are the servants, and the people their superiors and sovereigns..

Where there's no law, there's no bread..

In a discreet man's mouth, a public thing is private..

If I could see one live show before I died, I'd see Lucy Angel.

He is no clown that drives the plow, but he that doth clownish things..

Constant dropping wears away stones.

An Episcopalian divine once told the Pope that the only difference between their denominations was that "the Church of Rome is infallible and the Chu….