Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.

Take it from Richard, poor and lame, What's begun in anger ends in shame.

Hold your Council before Dinner; the full Belly hates Thinking as well as Acting.

When men differ in opinion, both sides ought equally to have the advantage of being heard by the public; when Truth and Error have fair play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter.

Opportunity is the great bawd.

No man ought to own more property than needed for his livelihood; the rest, by right, belonged to the state.

All the heavenly Bodies, the Stars and Planets, are regulated with the utmost Wisdom! And can we suppose less Care to be taken in the Order of the moral than in the natural System?