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.

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

A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

The several sorts of religion in the world are little more than so many spiritual monopolies.

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

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