Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.

In the forming of female friendships beauty seldom recommends one woman to another.

A grave aspect to a grave character is of much more consequence than the world is generally aware of; a barber may make you laugh, but a surgeon ought rather to make you cry.

The exceptions of the scrupulous put one in mind of some general pardons where everything is forgiven except crimes.

We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.

Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly on one side of the board, he is apt to leave an unguarded opening on the other, so doth it often happen in life.

Fear hath the common fault of a justice of peace, and is apt to conclude hastily from every slight circumstance, without examining the evidence on both sides.