He look'd a little disorder'd, when he said this, but I did not apprehend any thing from it at that time, believing as it us'd to be said, that they who do those things never talk of them; or that they who talk of such things never do them.

Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.

Law is but a heathen word for power.

[The Devil's] laws are easy, and his gentle sway, Makes it exceeding pleasant to obey .

I hear much of people's calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent.

An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.

Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.