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

Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are seldom upon good Terms.

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

Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought.

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.

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.

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