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

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.

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

The Triumph of Wit is to make your good Nature subdue your Censure; to be quick in seeing Faults, and slow in exposing them. You are to consider, that the invisible thing called a Good Name, is made up of the Breath of Numbers that speak well of you; so that if by a disobliging Word you silence the meanest, the Gale will be less strong which is to bear up your Esteem.

Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

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