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

Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.

In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosophers and divines.

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.

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.

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.

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