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

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.

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.

Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

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