“Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.”
“Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.”
“He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.”
“He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.”
“Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong.”
“Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.”
“Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.”
“Never contend with one that is foolish, proud, positive, testy, or with a superior, or a clown, in matter of argument.”
“An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.”
“When good people have a falling out, only one of them may be at fault at first; but if the strife continues long, usually both become guilty.”
“Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections.”
“Haste and rashness are storms and tempests, breaking and wrecking business; but nimbleness is a full, fair wind, blowing it with speed to the heaven.”
“Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.”
“Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side ;of the face can smile while the other is pinched.”
“Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.”
“Memory is like a purse, if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof.”
“Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.”