Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
It is impossible to love and to be wise.
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
For knowledge itself is power.
The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.
People of great position are servants times three, servants of their country, servants of fame, and servants of business.
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison.
Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
Science is but an image of the truth.
God’s first creature, which was light.
Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.
For my name and memory I leave to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.
It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise!
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