A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
Observation is an old man's memory.
What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.
Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.
May you live all the days of your life.
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.