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

A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy.

The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

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.

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

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.

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.