A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.Collection: Patience
Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way.Collection: Hope
They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.Collection: Money
Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.Collection: Men
He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.Collection: Chance
There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.
No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.
Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no.
When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.
The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.