Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

Quote by Francis Bacon

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It is a certain sign of a wise government and proceeding that it can hold...

It is a certain sign of a wise government and proceeding that it can hold...

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you.

Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you.

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the...

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the...

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

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

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job...

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job...

The four pillars of government . . . (which are religion, justice, counsel, and treasure).

The four pillars of government . . . (which are religion, justice, counsel, and treasure).

Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground

Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of...

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of...

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot...

If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot...

As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which...

As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which...

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the...

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the...

Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing they marry...

Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing they marry...

To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped...

To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped...