Riches are for spending.
Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he does not.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high.
Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: “O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.” And God granted it.
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.
Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sun beams and you will always look lovely!
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.
I hold every man a debtor to his profession.
