Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows.
Leisure, is Time for doing something useful; this Leisure the diligent Man will obtain, but the lazy Man never.
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
Laws like to Cobwebs catch small Flies, Great ones break thro’ before your eyes.
Late Children, early Orphans.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
It is a Grand Mistake to think of being Great without Goodness; and I pronounce it as certain, that there was never yet a truly Great Man that was not at the same Time truly Virtuous.
Innocence is its own Defence.
Industry need not wish.
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
In the Affairs of this World Men are saved, not by Faith, but by the Want of it.
In short, I conceiv’d that great Part of the Miseries of Mankind, were brought upon them by the false Estimates they had made of the Value of Things, and by their giving too much for the Whistle.