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

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way.

The several sorts of religion in the world are little more than so many spiritual monopolies.

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.

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.