And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

Silence - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.

Be civil to all; serviceable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.

We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport.

I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power.

Is there anything men take more pains about than to render themselves unhappy?

Praise little, dispraise less.