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

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 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.

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

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

Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.

There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill natured.