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

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

The past is the best way to suppose what may come.

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

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.

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

Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.