Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought.

The past is the best way to suppose what may come.

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

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.

True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have