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

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

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

The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

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.

True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.