Doing justice to worthy qualities, is a credit to our judgment.

Precipitation ruins the best laid designs; whereas patience ripens the most difficult and renders the execution of them easy.

There are authors who take so much pains to polish their writings, that all they give to the public are nothing but mere dust and filings.

Riches would be little esteemed if they did not furnish vanity, with the pleasure of having what others have not.

Though justice is not sold, it costs a great deal, and one must be very rich to obtain it.

In all fortunes and extremes a great soul will never want matter to work upon. There is no condition but what sits well upon a wise

man.

He that hinders not a mischief when it is in his power, is guilty of it.

Great speakers often resemble those musicians who prefer noise to harmony.

Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out; it is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack; and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that have not sense enough to be honest.

Nothing appears so low and mean as lying and dissimulation; and it is observable, that only weak animals endeavour to supply by craft the defects of strength, which nature has not given them.

Truth and falsehood, like the iron and clay in Nebuchadnezzar's image may cleave, but they will not incorporate.

A honest man is believed without an oath; for his reputation swears for him.

Seldom trust appearances, whatever noise a drum makes, it is only filled with air.

He that speaks of another's failings with pleasure, must expect to hear of his own with shame.

Truth in every thing is still the same, and like its great author, can be but one; and the sentence of reason stands as firm as the foundation of the earth. Reason is ever allied to truth.

Wit will never make a man rich, but there are places where riches will always make a wit.

When a man draws himself into a narrow compass, fortune has the least mark at him.

None are so invincible as your half-witted people; who know just enough to excite their pride, but not so much as to cure their ignorance.

Every medal has its reverse. Every convenience carries its abatement.

own.

By others faults, wise men correct their

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty the wit; and at forty the judgment.

Invention is the portion of ready wits, and good choice that of solid judgment.

Honesty is silently commended even by the practice of the most wicked; for their deceit is under its colour.

The world can never be so bad, but a honest man will at one time or other be thought good for something.

There is as much difference between wit and wisdom, as between the talent of a buffoon and statesman; and yet in the ordinary course of the world, one passes often for the other.

He that shoots an arrow in jest, may kill a man in carnest.

There are none that fall so unpitied, as those that have raised themselves upon the spoils of the public.

One general mark of an impostor is, that he outdoes the original.

A heart without secresy, is an open letter for every one to read.