Every man is born with the faculty of reason and the faculty of speech, but why should he be able to speak before he has anything to say?
Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.
He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.
Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.
No man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty.
Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.