Wicked companions invite us to hell.

The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.

Some general officers should pay a stricter regard to truth than to call the depopulating other countries the service of their own.

A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.

Habit hath so vast a prevalence over the human mind that there is scarce anything too strange or too strong to be asserted of it. The story of the miser who, from long accustoming to cheat others, came at last to cheat himself, and with great delight and triumph picked his own pocket of a guinea to convey to his hoard, is not impossible or improbable.

A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.

Conscience is a judge in every man's breast, which none can cheat or corrupt, and perhaps the only incorrupt thing about him; yet, inflexible and honest as this judge is (however polluted the bench on which he sits), no man can, in my opinion, enjoy any applause which is not there adjudged to be his due.