When a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name.
Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
God hath intended our passions to prevail over reason.
I have known some men possessed of good qualities which were very serviceable to others, but useless to themselves; like a sun-dial on the front of a house, to inform the neighbours and passengers, but not the owner within.
An intelligent person should put money in the beginning, but not in heart
A lie is an excuse guarded