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

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

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

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

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.

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.