Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.

They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

To be a man's own fool is bad enough; but the vain man is everybody's.

Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

He that has more knowledge than judgement, is made for another man's use more than his own.

Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.

A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him.

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen.

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.

It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.