Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time.

A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.

Conscience signifies that knowledge which a man hath of his own thoughts and actions; and because, if a man judgeth fairly of his actions by comparing them with the law of God, his mind will approve or condemn him; this knowledge or conscience may be both an accuser and a judge.

And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.

All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenue.

Some dire misfortune to portend, no enemy can match a friend.

When any one person or body of men seize into their hands the power in the last resort, there is properly no longer a government, but what Aristotle and his followers call the abuse and corruption of one.