Time therefore ought, above all other kinds of property, to be free from invasion; and yet there is no man who does not claim that power.

I married a wife with no great fortune, but of a family remarkable for domestick prudence, and elegant frugality.

To get a name, can happen but to few. A name, even in the most commercial nation, is one of the few things which cannot be bought.

When two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather; they are in haste to tell each other, what each must already know.

Credulity [is] confidence of opinion too great for the evidence from which opinion is derived.

The inexpressible charms of the elbow-chair, attended with a soft stool for the feet! Thus, vacant of thought, do I indulge the live-long day.

In a battle, every man should fight as if he was the single champion; in preparations for war, every man should think as if the last event depended on his counsel.

The common talk of men must relate to facts in which the talkers have, or think they have, an interest.

Every heart ought to rejoice when true merit is distinguished with publick notice.

The prejudices and pride of man have long presumed the sword and spindle made for different hands, and denied the other sex military glory.