Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Necessity never made a good bargain.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed too severe, seldom executed.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.