The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.

E'er you remark another's sin, bid your own conscience look within.

One of the advantages of being a 'reasonable creature' is that one can find a reason for whatever one wants to do.

Don't go to the doctor with every distemper, nor to the lawyer with every quarrel, nor to the pot for every thirst.

Anger warms the invention, but overheats the oven.

There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharoah - get first all the people's money, then all their lands, and then make them and their children servants forever.

A virtuous heretic shall be saved before a wicked Christian.