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

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

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

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.

A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.