A ship under sail and a big-bellied woman, Are the handsomest two things that can be seen common..

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning..

Avoid dishonest gain: no price can recompence the pangs of vice..

Death is a fisherman, the world we see His fish-pond is, and we the fishes be; His net some general sickness; howe'er he Is not so kind as other fish….

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price..

Every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed, that, without being interested in the subject,….

I have never seen the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into Gold, but I have known the pursuit of it turn a Man's Gold into Lead..

A man is sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps through fear of being thought to have but little..

Did not strong connections draw me elsewhere, I believe Scotland would be the country I would choose to end my days in..

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it..

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at t….

E'er you remark another's sin, bid your own conscience look within..

Wink at small faults; remember thou hast great ones..

It is much to be lamented that a man of Franklin's general good character and great influence should have been an unbeliever in Christianity, and als….

God helps those who help themselves..

A man can be beautiful physically, mentally, or personality wise. True beauty, though, is in the spirit. A genuine man who understands right and wron….

Don't think so much of your own Cunning, as to forget other Men's; a Cunning Man is overmatched by a cunning Man and a Half..

I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war, or a bad peace..

God bless the King, and grant him long to Reign..

Revelation, indeed, as such had no influence on my mind.

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him..