It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
All colors will agree in the dark.
Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men’s heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings.
The remedy is worse than the disease.
Cure the disease and kill the patient.
Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
A sudden bold and unexpected question does many times surprise a man and lay him open.
A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.
People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can’t fool the neighbors.
The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man’s body.
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.
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.
Opportunity makes a thief.
A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.
When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
There be three things which make a nation great and prosperous: a fertile soil, busy workshops, easy conveyance for men and goods from place to place.
Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.
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