Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.

An excuse is a lie guarded.

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

What we call the Irish Brogue is no sooner discovered, than it makes the deliverer, in the last degree, ridiculous and despised; and, from such a mouth, an Englishman expects nothing but bulls, blunders, and follies.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

The sciences are found, like Hercules's oxen, by tracing them backward; and old sciences are unravelled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.

When we are old, our friends find it difficult to please us, and are less concerned whether we be pleased or not.