The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.
Man being made reasonable and so a thinking creature there is nothing more worthy of his being than the right direction and employment of his thoughts since upon this depends both his usefulness t...
Not to be provoked is best but if moved never correct till the fume is spent for every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.
Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore there be any kindness I can show...let me do it now.
Sense never fails to give them that have it, Words enough tomake them understood. It too often happens in some conversations,as in Apothecary Shops, that those Pots that are Empty, or haveThings of sm...
Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
If thou wouldst be happy ... have an indifference for more than what is sufficient.