An author ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who keeps a public ordinary, at which all persons are welcome for their money.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.

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.

Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.

There is nothing a Man of good Sense dreads so much in a Wife, as her having more Sense than himself.

Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.