Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.