Let us try what love will do.
I will never do this, says one, yet does it: I am resolved to do this, says another; but flags upon second Thoughts: Or does it, tho’ awkwardly, for his Word’s sake: As if it were worse to break his Word, than to do amiss in keeping it.
Any government is free to the people under it (whatever be the frame) where the law rules, and the people are a party to those laws, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion.
All Excess is ill: But Drunkenness is of the worst Sort. It spoils Health, dismounts the Mind, and unmans Men: It reveals Secrets, is Quarrelsome, Lascivious, Impudent, Dangerous and Mad. In fine, he that is drunk is not a Man: Because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a Man from a Beast.
If thou wouldn’t conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.
Friendship . . . is an Union of Spirits, a Marriage of Hearts, and the Bond thereof Vertue.
Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.
Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.
The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.
God enters by a private door into every individual.
Fidelity is the sister of justice.
It happened once that a youth and a maiden beheld each other in a public assembly for the first time
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe… the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.
His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.
Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est (Knowledge Itself Is Power)
Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!
As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.
Appearances matter – and remember to smile.
A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide.
