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Those who have a tolerable knowledge of human nature will not stand in need of such lights.
The system is the best that the present views and circumstances of the country will permit.
The King's cheese is half wasted in parings: But no matter, 'tis made of the people's milk.
He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.
We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride and folly than we are taxed by government.
One mend-fault is worth two find-faults, but one find-fault is better than two make-faults.
The good or ill hap of a good or ill life, is the good or ill choice of a good or ill wife.
You have on hand those things that you need if you have but the wit and wisdom to use them.
None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.
Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty.
Order - Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
Some books we read, tho' few there are that hit the happy point where wisdom joins with wit.
What is a butterfly? At best He's but a caterpiller drest. The gaudy Fop's his picture just.
Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation.
The genius of the people will ill brook the inquisitive and peremptory spirit of excise laws.
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
Speak with contempt of none, from slave to king, The meanest Bee hath, and will use, a sting.
Reader, I wish thee Health, Wealth, Happiness, And may kind Heaven thy Year's Industry bless.
It was said of him that he did not say much, but that when he did everyone stopped to listen.
Annual giving is the custom of making a gift-a-year to an institution in which one has faith.
Time eateth all things, could old poets say, The times are chang'd, our times drink all away.
When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
Love and toothache have many cures, but none infallible, except possession and dispossession.
Lawyers, Preachers, and Tomtits Eggs, there are more of them hatch'd than come to perfection.
Every individual of the community at large has an equal right to the protection of government.
Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society.
You can not pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns.
He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security.
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
We constantly change the world, even by our inaction. Therefore, let us change it responsibly.
The poor man must walk to get meat for his stomach, the rich man to get a stomach to his meat.
I have sometimes almost wished it had been my destiny to be born two or three centuries hence.
Finding myself to exist in the world, I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist.
Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows.
One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.
In free governments the rulers are the servants, and the people their superiors and sovereigns.
Get what you can, and what you get hold; 'tis the Stone that will turn all your Lead into Gold.
Schemes to subvert the liberties of a great community require time to mature them for execution.
People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.
The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.
Why should I give my Readers bad lines of my own when good ones of other People's are so plenty?
He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
Your best investment is to pour your purse into your head, and no one can take it away from you.
Where there is hunger, law is not regarded; and where law is not regarded, there will be hunger.
Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.
Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.
The greatest inventions are those inquiries which tend to increase the power of man over matter.
Take care of the halfpence and pence, and the shillings and pounds will take care of themselves.