Take pains. Be perfect.
He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.
He who dies for virtue does not perish.
A contented mind is the best source for trouble.
All men love themselves.
To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.
The man who masters his own soul will forever be called conqueror of conquerors.
No one ever wanted to hire me. Ever. I've never been recruited anywhere. I have beat my head against every wall, at every place that I worked.
People get the government their behavior deserves. People deserve better than that.
The cause of Sense, is the External Body, or Object, which presseth the organ proper to each Sense, either immediately, as in theTaste and Touch; or mediately, as in Seeing, Hearing, and Smelling: which pressure, by the mediation of Nerves, and other strings, and membranes of the body, continued inwards to the Brain, and Heart, causeth there a resistance, or counter- pressure, or endeavor of the heart, to deliver it self: which endeavor because Outward, seemeth to be some matter without.
A woman friend! He that believes that weakness, Steers in a stormy night without a compass.