“Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.”
“Prejudice not being funded on reason cannot be removed by argument.”
“When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.”
“The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.”
“It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.”
“He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.”
“Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o clock is a scoundrel.”
“Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.”
“The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.”
“Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.”
“They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master.”
“He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.”
“What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.”
“He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.”
“To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.”
“No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.”
“Sorrow is the rust of the soul and activity will cleanse and brighten it.”
“Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.”
“Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.”
“Why, Sir, most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things.”
“It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.”
“What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.”
“I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.”
“The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.”
“Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.”
“There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.”
“He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.”
“As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.”
“A man who is good enough to go to heaven is not good enough to be a clergyman.”
“Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.”