Beauty and folly are old companions.
Be slow in chusing a Friend, slower in changing.
Be at War with your Vices, at Peace with your Neighbours, and let every New-Year find you a better Man.
As we must account for every idle word, so we must for every idle silence.
Anger is never without a Reason, but seldom with a good One.
An Egg today is better than a Hen to-morrow.
All would live long, but none would be old.
All Wars are Follies, very expensive and very mischieveous ones.
All things are easy to Industry, All things difficult to Sloth.
Admiration is the Daughter of Ignorance.
A republic, if you can keep it.[When asked by a lady, ‘Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?’]
A quarrelsome Man has no good Neighbours.