Philosophy is nothing but discretion.

Casting out devils is mere juggling; they never cast out any but what they first cast in.

Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.

When men comfort themselves with philosophy, 'tis not because they have got two or three sentences, but because they have digested those sentences, and made them their own: philosophy is nothing but discretion.

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.

Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.

Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up his dignity.