Business is so much lower a thing than learning that a man used to the last cannot easily bring his stomach down to the first.

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

Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.

A fool hath no dialogue within himself, the first thought carrieth him without the reply of a second.

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

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.

Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.