Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. Where one has been saved by a true estimation of another's weakness, thousands have been destroyed by a false appreciation of their own strength.

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Custom is the law of one description of fools, and fashion of another; but the two parties often clash--for precedent is the legislator of the first, and novelty of the last. Custom, therefore, looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present.

Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.

He that can please nobody is not so much to be pitied as he that nobody can please.

Wealth is a relative thing since those who have little and want less are richer than those who have much but want more.