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" Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness. "

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" Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world. "

" Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it. "

" Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform. "

" He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end. "

" Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it. "

" To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's. "

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

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

" Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers. "

" Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it. "

" To be like Christ is to be a Christian. "

" Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man. "

" Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast. "

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

" Let the people think they govern and they will be governed. "

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

" We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that. "

" True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it. "

" Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense. "

" A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it. "

" He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care. "

" Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains. "

" Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts. "

" It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any. "

" True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. "

" Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom. "

" Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit. "

" 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. "

" A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. "

" Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. "