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.

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

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosophers and divines.

Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.

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

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