“A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.”
“Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.”
“I hold every man a debtor to his profession.”
“Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.”
“Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.”
“I would live to study, and not study to live.”
“The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.”
“Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.”
“The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.”
“No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.”
“Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.”
“Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.”
“Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.”
“Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man.”
“Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.”
“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
“Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.”
“Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.”
“A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green.”
“Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.”
“God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.”
“Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.”
“Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.”
“Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.”
“They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.”
“The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.”
“Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.”
“Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.”
“The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.”
“Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.”