Idle hands are the devil's playthings.

He's a fool that makes his doctor his heir.

Love and toothache have many cures, but none infallible, except possession and dispossession.

To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance must be in one view rather pleasing, viz., that though we are to live forever we may be continually amused and delighted with learning something new.

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

Covetousness is ever attended with solicitude and anxiety.

In success be moderate. Humility makes great men twice honourable.