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

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

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

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.

Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.

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.