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.

Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

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.

A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy.

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

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