It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.
I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or water.
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
For want of a block, man will stumble at a straw.
The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.