He that opposes his own judgment against the consent of the times ought to be backed with unanswerable truths; and he that has truth on his side is a fool as well as a coward if he is afraid to own it because of other men's opinions.

Justice is always Violence to the Party offending, for every Man is Innocent in his own Eyes.

All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.

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.

I know not what to call this, nor will I urge that it is a secret, overruling decree, that hurries us on to be the instruments of our own destruction, even though it be before us, and that we rush upon it with our eyes open.

Great families of yesterday we show, And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who.

He that is rich is wise.