I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore there be any kindness I can show or any good thing I can do for any fellow being let me do it now ... as I shall not pass this way again.
Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.
Time is what we want most,but what we use worst.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
To be like Christ is to be a Christian.
All Excess is ill: But Drunkenness is of the worst Sort. It spoils Health, dismounts the Mind, and unmans Men: It reveals Secrets, is Quarrelsome, Lascivious, Impudent, Dangerous and Mad. In fine, he...
O Lord help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
Next to God thy parents.
All excess is ill but drunkeness is of the worst sort. It spoils health dismounts the mind and unmans men. It reveals secrets is quarrelsome lascivious impudent dangerous and bad.
A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably
Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
Religion is nothing else but love to God and man.
In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.
There can be no friendship when there is no freedom. Friendship loves the free air and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.
In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.
The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
It were better to be of no church than to be bitter for any.