A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.
Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.
Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.
He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
He that lives to forever, never fears dying.
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.
Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.
In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.
It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.
Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.
Kings in this should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.
Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.
Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.
Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.
Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.
Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope.
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.
Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.
Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.
Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.
Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.
Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.
They have a right to censure that have a heart to help: the rest is cruelty, not justice.
They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.
To be like Christ is to be a Christian.
True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.
True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
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