There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government. |
There is no little enemy |
There is no man so bad, but he secretly respects the good. |
There never was a good war nor a bad peace. |
There never was a good war or a bad peace. |
There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. |
There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry. |
There was never a good war or a bad peace. |
There will be sleeping enough in the grave |
There will be sleeping enough in the grave |
There's many witty men whose brains can't fill their bellies |
There's more old Drunkards than old Doctors |
There's none deceived but he that trusts |
There's small Revenge in Words, but Words may be greatly revenged |
They that are on their guard and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked than the supine, secure and negligent |