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" If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world. "

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" Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New. "

" The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. "

" Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. "

" Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. "

" Acorns were good until bread was found. "

" Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. "

" Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out. "

" A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. "

" The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express. "

" Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite. "

" A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. "

" Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread. "

" In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior. "

" Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. "

" I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. "

" If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us. "

" It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt. "

" The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because the religion of the heathen consisted rather in rites and ceremonies than in any constant belief. "

" Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue. "

" Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul. "

" God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires. "

" This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. "

" Knowledge is power. "

Knowledge Is Power

" There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. "

" Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. "

" There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self. "

" Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority. "

" Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress. "

" It is natural to die as to be born. "

" God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave. "