Give me yesterday’s Bread, this Day’s Flesh, and last Year’s Cyder.
Genius without Education is like Silver in the Mine.
Gain may be temporary and uncertain, but ever while you live, Expence is constant and certain; and ’tis easier to build two Chimnies than to keep one in Fuel.
Friends are the true Sceptres of Princes.
Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins.
Fools make feasts and wise men eat ’em.
Experience keeps a dear school, yet fools will learn in no other.
Every Body cries, a Union is absolutely necessary; but when they come to the Manner and Form of the Union, their weak Noddles are presently distracted.
Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy wealthy and wise.