Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.

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

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

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.

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

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.