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| A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor | | Gifts | |
| A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two | | Quarrels | |
| A sword is never a killer, it is a tool in the killer's hands | | Weapons | |
| A well-governed appetite is a great part of liberty | | Liberty | |
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| Adversity finds at last the man whom she has often passed by | | Uncategorized | |
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| All cruelty springs from hardheartedness and weakness | | Uncategorized | |
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| All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up | | Uncategorized | |
| All things are cause for either laughter or weeping. | | Laughter; Tears | |
| Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall. | | Anger | |
| Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it | | Anger | |
| Anger, though concealed, is betrayed by the countenance. ·That anger is not warrantable which hath seen two suns. | | Uncategorized | |
| Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. | | Uncategorized | |
| Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it | | Uncategorized | |
| As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasur | | Age | |
| As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. | | Uncategorized | |
| As long as you live, keep learning how to live. | | Life | |
| As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit. | | Culture | |
