Formality is sufficiently revenged upon the world for being so unreasonably laughed at; it is destroyed, it is true, but it hath the spiteful satisfaction of seeing everything destroyed with it.

A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy.

A man that steps aside from the world and has leisure to observe it without interest and design, thinks all mankind as mad as they think him.

Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are seldom upon good Terms.

The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation.

Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought.

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way.