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.
I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore there be any kindness I can show…let me do it now.- William Penn
True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
The truest end of life is to know that life never ends.
Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.
A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
It is a profitable Wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and Pains are spared, in not flattering our selves against Probabilities.
If thou art clean and warm, it is sufficient; for more doth but rob the Poor, and please the Wanton.
Excess in Apparel is another costly Folly. The very Trimming of the vain World would cloath all the naked one.
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as mortals.
This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal.
Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.
We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
Avoid popularity it has many snares and no real benefit.
Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.
No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
The Country is both the Philosopher’s Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.
In all debates let truth be thy aim; not victory or an unjust interest; and endeavor to gain rather than to expose thy antagonist.
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