Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought.

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

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

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

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.

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.