There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.

Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.

Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination.

Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.

Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.

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.