There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love.
Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
It is a good maxim to trust a person entirely or not at all.
A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?
Heroes, notwithstanding the high ideas which, by the means of flatterers, they may entertain of themselves, or the world may conceive of them, have certainly more of mortal than divine about them.