I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.
If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.
Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.
... a book indeed sometimes debauched me from my work....
Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
Reckless youth makes rueful age.
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made,What's a sundial in the shade?
When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom...
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.
I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong,...