Seek not to be Rich, but Happy. The one lies in Bags, the other in Content: which Wealth can never give. |
Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom. |
Sexes make no Difference; since in Souls there is none: And they are the Subjects of Friendship. |
She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend |
Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns |
Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it |
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood. |
The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God. |
The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God; but in cities little else but the works of men. And the one makes a better subject for contemplation than the other. |
The Humble, Meek, Merciful, Just, Pious and Devout Souls, are everywhere of one religion; and when Death has taken off the Mask, they will know one another, though the divers Liveries they wear here make them Strangers. |
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves |
The public must and will be served. |
The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all |
The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune |
The truest end of life is to know that life never ends. |