Observation is an old man's memory.

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.

Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters.

Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.

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.

When we desire or solicit anything, our minds run wholly on the good side or circumstances of it; when it is obtained, our minds run wholly on the bad ones.