Old friends are best.
Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.
Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.
Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up dignity. In gluttony there must be eating, in drunkenness there must be drinking; 'tis not the eating, and 'tis not the drinking that must be blamed, but the excess. So in pride.
Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.