Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness yet perhaps few...
I never saw heard nor read that the clergy were beloved in any nation...
We have enough religion to make us hate but not enough to make us love one...
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable for the happy impute...
Power is no blessing in itself except when it is used to protect the innocent.
Politics as the word is commonly understood are nothing but corruptions.
Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to...
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the...
A wise person should have money in their head but not in their heart.
A wise man should have money in his head but not in his heart.
May you live all the days of your life.
Words are but wind and learning is nothing but words ergo learning is...
When a true genius appears you can know him by this sign: that all the...
Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor but not for their folly.
For in reason all government without the consent of the governed is the very...
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
It is impossible that anything so natural so necessary and so universal as...
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet Doctor Quiet and Doctor...
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse....
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together Let...
Invention is the talent of youth as judgment is of age.
Interest is the spur of the people but glory that of great souls. Invention...
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life as not to...
Our judgments judge us and nothing reveals us exposes our weaknesses more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.
