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.

A stander-by may sometimes, perhaps, see more of the game than he that plays it.

I can discover no political evil in suffering bullies, sharpers, and rakes, to rid the world of each other by a method of their own; where the law hath not been able to find an expedient.

No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.

A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.

A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith.

It may pass for a maxim in State, that the administration cannot be placed in too few hands, nor the legislature in too many.