Every single Act either weakeneth or improveth our Credit with other Men ; and as an habit of being just to our Word will confirm, so an habit of too freely dispensing with it must necessarily destroy it.

Nothing is less forgiven than setting Patterns Men have no mind to follow.

The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.

The best Party is but a kind of Conspiracy against the rest of the Nation. They put every body else out of their Protection. Like the Jews to the Gentiles, all others are the Offscowrings of the World.

A very great Memory often forgetteth how much Time is lost by repeating things of no Use.

Men are so unwilling to displease a Prince, that it is as dangerous to inform him right, as to serve him wrong.

Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.