"Health consists with temperance alone."

"Order is heaven's first law."

"Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul."

"Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child."

"But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?"

"Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause."

"Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after."

"To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves."

"Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel."

"The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave."

"There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit."

"Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind."

"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread."

"The world forgetting, by the world forgot."

"Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can."

"Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance."

"I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few."

"A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring."

"Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!"

"Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!"

"What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease."

"No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday."

"Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground."

"Never find fault with the absent."

"Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside."

"Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?"

"Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man."

"For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best."

"Wit is the lowest form of humor."

"Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use."

"Woman's at best a contradiction still."

"Men would be angels, angels would be gods."

"Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men."

"Passions are the gales of life."

"For fools rush in where angels fear to tread."

"Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind."

"Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends."

"The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still."

"An honest man's the noblest work of God."

"Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing."

"On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale."

"How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!"

"For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right."

"They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake."

"True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can."

"Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise."

"Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor."

"So vast is art, so narrow human wit."

"Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire."