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 past is the best way to suppose what may come.

There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill natured.

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.

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

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

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