Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.

To the generality of men you cannot give a stronger hint for them to impose upon you than by imposing upon yourself.

In a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country.

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.

Great vices are the proper objects of our detestation, smaller faults of our pity, but affectation appears to be the only true source of the ridiculous.

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