Waste No Time With Revolutions That Do

Experience Has Always Shown, And Reason Also, That Affairs Which Depend On Many Seldom Succeed.

...be More Guided By Hope Than Fear.

Let No One Trust So Entirely To Natural Prudence As To Persuade Himself That It Will Suffice To Guide Him Without Help From Experience.

Since There Is Nothing So Well Worth Having As Friends, Never Lose A Chance To Make Them.

To Relinquish A Present Good Through Apprehension Of A Future Evil Is In Most Instances Unwise ... From A Fear Which May Afterwards Turn Out Groundless, You Lost The Good That Lay Within Your Grasp.