Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way.

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.

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

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.

The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.