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

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

If none were to have Liberty but those who understand what it is, there would not be many freed Men in the world.

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.

The several sorts of religion in the world are little more than so many spiritual monopolies.

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.