Prodigality of Time produces Poverty of Mind as well as of Estate.

I believe that Man is not the most perfect Being but One, rather that as there are many Degrees of Beings his Inferiors, so there are many Degrees of Beings superior to him.

There's many witty men whose brains can't fill their bellies.

The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.

Two passions have powerful influence on the affairs of men: the love of power and the love of money.

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

All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.