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

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.

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

A man that steps aside from the world and has leisure to observe it without interest and design, thinks all mankind as mad as they think him.

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

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.

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