Law is but a heathen word for power.

In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.

Friends are good,--good, if well chosen.

I had been tricked once by that Cheat called love, but the Game was over.

I have since often observed, how incongruous and irrational the common temper of mankind is, especially of youth ... that they are not ashamed to sin, and yet are ashamed to repent; not ashamed of the action for which they ought justly to be esteemed fools, but are ashamed of the returning, which only can make them be esteemed wise men.

What are the sorrows of other men to us, and what their joy?

Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer.