There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
A great empire like a great cake is most easily diminished at the edges.
I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon...
Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
Half a truth is often a great lie.
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed too severe seldom executed.
Necessity never made a good bargain.
Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.
Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that...
Each year one vicious habit discarded in time might make the worst of us good.
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily...
There was never a good war or a bad peace.
Those disputing contradicting and confuting people are generally...
Speak ill of no man but speak all the good you know of everybody.
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
Do good to your friends to keep them to your enemies to win them.
Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness I was never going to be forgiven.
