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

Formality is sufficiently revenged upon the world for being so unreasonably laughed at; it is destroyed, it is true, but it hath the spiteful satisfaction of seeing everything destroyed with it.

Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

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

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

Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought.