The best work and of greatest merit for the public has proceeded from the unmarried or childless men.
All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.
Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
In taking revenge a man is but equal to his enemy but in passing it over he is his superior.
Houses are built to live in and not to look on.
Fortune makes him fool whom she makes her darling.
The folly of one man is the fortune of another.
Reading makes a full man conference a ready man and writing an exact man.
The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit and not when they miss and commit to memory the one and forget and pass over the other.
Histories make men wise poets witty the mathematics subtile natural philosophy deep morals grave logic and rhetoric able to contend.
A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.
This world's a bubble.
Our humanity were a poor thing but for the divinity that stirs within us.
Reading maketh a full man conference a ready man and writing an exact man.
For knowledge too is itself a power.
There was never law or sect or opinion did so much magnify goodness as the Christian religion doth.
Reading maketh a full man.
I take all knowledge to be my province.
He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune for they are impediments to great enterprises either of virtue or mischief.
I hold every man a debtor to his profession from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves by way of amends to be a help and...
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