Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things

He that's secure is not safe.

It is wonderful how preposterously the affairs of the world are managed. We assemble parliaments and councils to have the benefit of collected wisdom, but we necessarily have, at the same time, the inconvenience of their collected passions, prejudices and private interests: for regulating commerce an assembly of great men is the greatest fool on earth

Anger warms the invention, but overheats the oven.

The wise man draws more advantage from his enemies than the fool from his friends

Joy doesn't exist in the world, it exists in us.

We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately.