When the People contend for their Liberty, they seldom get anything by their Victory but new masters. Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are very seldom upon good Terms.

Could we know what men are most apt to remember, we might know what they are most apt to do.

Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that resemble both their parents.

There is hardly any man so strict as not to vary a little from truth when he is to make an excuse.

Men in business are in as much danger from those at work under them as from those that work against them.

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.

You should live in the world so as it may hang about you like a loose garment.