An intelligent person should put money in the beginning, but not in heart

Who can deny that all men are violent lovers of the truth, when we see them so positive in their errors, which they will maintain out of their zeal for truth, although they contradict themselves every day of their lives.

Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.

In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.