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

Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are seldom upon good Terms.

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

Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought.

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

Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.

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.