We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately.
It is better to let 100 criminals go free than to imprison 1 innocent man.
America cultivates best what Germany brought forth.
If Men are so wicked as we now see them with Religion what would they be if without it?
It is very hard to dislike someone you have helped
The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either.
Slavery is ...an atrocious debasement of human nature.
I believe in one God, Creator of the Universe in that He ought to be whipped from pilar to post and back again for His shameful actions toward Humanity.
Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
I fully agree with General Washington, that we must protect this young nation from an insidious influence and impenetration. The menace, gentlemen, is the Jews.
Don't think so much of your own Cunning, as to forget other Men's; a Cunning Man is overmatched by a cunning Man and a Half.
I think that humanity brings much misery on itself by the false value they put on things.
The man that walks wit crowd, will get no farther than the crowd. The man that walks alone, will reach places unknown.
Mankind naturally and generally love to be flatter'd.
A good spouse and health is a person's best wealth.
He that hath a trade hath an estate; and he that hath a calling hath a place of profit and honor. A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.
Mankind are dastardly when they meet with opposition.
A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.
There is always room for the man of force.
Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of...
Getting it done is my reward.
Take it from Richard, poor and lame, What's begun in anger ends in shame.
Do you love life? Then don't waste time, because time is life!
All Mankind are beholden to him that is kind to the Good.
If what most men admire, they would despise, 'Twould look as if mankind were growing wise
The Man who with undaunted toils,/ sails unknown seas to unknown soils,/ With various wonders feasts his Sight: What stranger wonders does he write?
For one poor Man there are an hundred indigent.
There is no man so bad, but he secretly respects the good.
Don't value a man for the Quality he is of, but for the Qualities he possesses.
To the discontented man no chair is easy
Like a man travelling in foggy weather, those at some distance before him on the road he sees wrapped up in the fog, as well as those behind him, and also the people in the fields on each side, but near him all appears clear, though in truth he is as much in the fog as any of them.
Every Man has Assurance enough to boast of his honesty, few of their Understanding.
He that knows nothing of it, may by chance be a Prophet; while the wisest that is may happen to miss. The poor man must walk to get meat for his stomach, the rich man to get a stomach for his meat.
Tell a miser he's rich, and a woman she's old, you'll get no money of one, nor kindness of t'other
Neither a Fortress nor a Maidenhead will hold out long after they begin to parley.
Hope is an essential constituent of human life.
Anger and folly walk cheek by sole.
Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise
Each year one vicious habit rooted out, in time might make the worst man good throughout.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of the wise man is in his heart
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
For 6 l. a Year, you may have the Use of 100 l. if you are a Man of known Prudence and Honesty.
The busy man has few idle visitors, to the boiling pot, the flies come out.
A true great Man will neither trample on a Worm, nor sneak to an Emperor.
Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
When a man and a woman die, as poets sung, His heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue
If man could have half his wishes he would double his troubles
The Sun never repents of the good he does, nor does he ever demand a recompense
A man is not completely born until he be dead.
A man is never so ridiculous by those Qualities that are his own as by those that he affects to have
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
If a man could half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
If a Man casually exceeds, let him fast the next Meal, and all may be well again, provided it be not too often done; as if he exceed at Dinner, let him refrain a Supper, &c.
Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.
Money & Man a mutual Friendship show: Man makes false Money, Money makes Man so.
Strange! that a Man who has wit enough to write a Satyr; should have folly enough to publish it.
No workman without tools,/ Nor Lawyer without Fools,/ Can live by their Rules.
There is much difference between imitating a man and counterfeiting him.
The man who achieves makes many mistakes, but he never makes the biggest mistake of all - doing nothing
The modesty in a sect is perhaps a singular instance in the history of mankind, every other sect supposing itself in a position of all truth, and that those who differ are so far in the wrong; like a man traveling in foggy weather, those at some dist
Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never
A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.
A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds/ If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds.
A Man without ceremony has need of great merit in its place.