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

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

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

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 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.

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

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