If none were to have Liberty but those who understand what it is, there would not be many freed Men in the world.

A fool hath no dialogue within himself, the first thought carrieth him without the reply of a second.

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

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.

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

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

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.