A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
A wise man will make more opportunities, than he finds.
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
Truth will sooner come out from error than from confusion.
All good moral philosophy is but the handmaid to religion.
The age of antiquity is the youth of the world.
Imagination was given to man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Men's thoughts, are much according to their inclination; their discourse and speeches, according to their learning and infused opinions; but their deeds, are after as they have been accustomed.
Be true to thyself, as thou be not false to others.
It were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an opinion, as is unworthy of him.
Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.
What is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer.
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
Riches are a good handmaid, but the worst mistress.
Nothing is terrible except fear itself.
The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
Silence is the virtue of fools.
Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
Be angry, but sin not. Let not the sun go down upon your anger. Anger must be limited and confined, both in race and in time.
Judges ought to remember, that their office is jus dicere, and not jus dare; to interpret law, and not to make law, or give law.
Certainly fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swoln, and drowns things weighty and solid.
