“No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.”
“Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.”
“The public must and will be served.”
“To be like Christ is to be a Christian.”
“He that lives to forever, never fears dying.”
“Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.”
“Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.”
“They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.”
“Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.”
“Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.”
“To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.”
“No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.”
“If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.”
“It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.”
“Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.”
“Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.”
“Kings in this should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.”
“Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.”
“Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.”
“Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.”
“To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.”
“Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.”
“Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.”
“The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune.”
“He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.”
“In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.”
“We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.”
“True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.”
“Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.”
“He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.”