Mens Words are Bullets that their Enemies take up and make use of against them.
A Man watches himself best when others watch him too.
It is as necessary for us to suppress our Reason when it offendeth, as our Mistakes when they expose us.
In an unreasonable Age, a Man’s Reason let loose would undo him.
A wise Man will do with his Reason as a Miser doth with his Money, hoard it, but be very sparing in the Expence of it.
A Man that should call every thing by its right Name, would hardly pass the Streets without being knock’d down as a common Enemy.
A Man cannot be more in the Wrong than to own without Distinction the being in the Right.
When a Man is very kind or very angry, there is no sure Guard but Silence upon that Subject.
A Man’s Understanding is easily shoved out of its Place by warm Thoughts of any kind.
We are not so much Masters of our Heat as to have enough to warm our Thoughts, and not so much as to set them on fire.