• The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
• He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.
• Dip him in the river who loves water.
• A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
• He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
• The hours of folly are measur'd by the clock, but of wisdom: no clock can measure.
• No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.
• If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
• Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion.
• The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.
• The lust of the goat is the bounty of God.
• The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.
• The nakedness of woman is the work of God.
• The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity too great for the eye of man.
• The fox condemns the trap, not himself.
• Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth.
• The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
• What is now proved was once, only imagin'd.
• Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
• Every thing possible to be believ'd is an image of truth.
• Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
• He who has suffer'd you to impose on him knows you.
• You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
• Listen to the fools reproach! it is a kingly title!
• If others had not been foolish, we should be so.
• The soul of sweet delight, can never be defil'd.
• The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest.
• The crow wish'd every thing was black, the owl, that every thing was white.
• Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
• Sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.
• Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believ'd.