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

Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.

The Triumph of Wit is to make your good Nature subdue your Censure; to be quick in seeing Faults, and slow in exposing them. You are to consider, that the invisible thing called a Good Name, is made up of the Breath of Numbers that speak well of you; so that if by a disobliging Word you silence the meanest, the Gale will be less strong which is to bear up your Esteem.

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.

The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation.

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.