It was a very proper answer to him who asked why any map should be delighted with beauty, that it was a question that none but a blind man could ask;….

There is no art or science that is too difficult for industry to attain to; it is the gift of tongues, and makes a man understood and valued in all c….

The laboring man and the artificer knows what every hour of his time is worth, and parts not with it but for the full value..

Dissimulation was his masterpiece; in which he so much excelled that men were not ashamed of being deceived but twice by him..

That men should kill one another for want of somewhat else to do, which is the case of all volunteers in war, seems to be so horrible to humanity tha….

Envy is a weed that grows in all soils and climates, and is no less luxuriant in the country than in the court; is not confined to any rank of men or….

Friendship hath the skill and observation of the best physician, the diligence and vigilance of the best nurse, and the tenderness and patience of th….

Anger is an affected madness, compounded of pride and folly, and an intention to do commonly more mischief than it can bring to pass; and, without do….

If our credit be so well built, so firm, that it is not easy to be shaken by calumny or insinuation, envy then commends us, and extols us beyond reas….

Angry and choleric men are as ungrateful and unsociable as thunder and lightning, being in themselves all storm and tempest; but quiet and easy natur….

Counsel and conversation is a good second education, that improves all the virtue and corrects all the vice of the former, and of nature itself..

No man is so insignificant as to be sure his example can do no hurt..

If we did not take great pains, and were not at great expense to corrupt our nature, our nature would never corrupt us..