It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action.
If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy.
Let him who expects one class of society to prosper into highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side of his face can smile while the other is pinched.
A stumble may prevent a fall.
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.
He that fears your presence will hate you absence.