One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.

I can discover no political evil in suffering bullies, sharpers, and rakes, to rid the world of each other by a method of their own; where the law hath not been able to find an expedient.

If they would, for Example, praise the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they describe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms, Ellipses, and other geometrical terms.

Praise is the daughter of present power.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith.

The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.