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

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

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

If none were to have Liberty but those who understand what it is, there would not be many freed Men in the world.

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.

The past is the best way to suppose what may come.

The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have