Revenge is a debt, in the paying of which the greatest knave is honest and sincere, and, so far as he is able, punctual.

So blinded are we by our passions, that we suffer more to be damned than to be saved.

There are many that despise half the world; but if there be any that despise the whole of it, it is because the other half despises them.

If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good book, it wants it not.

It has been shrewdly said, that when, men abuse us we should suspect ourselves, and when they praise us, them. It is a rare instance of virtue to despise which censure which we do not deserve; and still more rare to despise praise which we do.

As there are none so weak that we may venture to injure them with impunity, so there are none so low that they may not at some time be able to repay an obligation. Therefore, what benevolence would dictate, prudence would confirm.

A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.