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The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green.

Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life.

I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision.

Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.

Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Of all the things in nature, the formation and endowment of man was singled out by the ancients.

Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.

Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.

It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.

Do not wonder if the common people speak more truly than those above them: they speak more safely.

If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

If there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire.

Nothing doth so much keep men out of the Church, and drive men out of the Church, as breach of unity.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless.

Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.

For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.

To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.

...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know

A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.

The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.

The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

When Christ came into the world, peace was sung; and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed.

Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt.

If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State.

There is nothing more certain in nature than that it is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated.

The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer.

Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.

For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.

All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.

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