The best of men cannot suspend their fate; The good die early, and the bad die late..

I hear much of people's calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent..

Friends are good,--good, if well chosen..

Necessity makes an honest man a knave..

I learned to look more upon the bright side of my condition, and less upon the dark side, and to consider what I enjoyed, rather than what I wanted :….

Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme..

Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself when apparent to the eyes ; and we find the burden of anxiety greater, b….

Though I don't like the crew, I won't sink the ship. In fact, in time of storm I'll do my best to save it. You see, we are all in this craft and must….

He that is rich is wise, And all men learned poverty despise..

Wherever God erects a house of prayer the Devil always builds a chapel there; And 't will be found, upon examination, the latter has the largest c….

Pleasure is a thief to business..

The height of human wisdom is to bring our tempers down to our circumstances, and to make a calm within, under the weight of the greatest storm witho….

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions..

For I cannot think that GOD Almighty ever made them [women] so delicate, so glorious creatures; and furnished them with such charms, so agreeable and….

Justice is always Violence to the Party offending, for every Man is Innocent in his own Eyes..

Actions receive their tincture from the times, And as they change are virtues made or crimes.

Today we love what tomorrow we hate, today we seek what tomorrow we shun, today we desire what tomorrow we fear, nay, even tremble at the apprehensio….

In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled..

I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm..

All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have..

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear..