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.

Story-telling is subject to two unavoidable defects,--frequent repetition and being soon exhausted; so that, whoever values this gift in himself, has need of a good memory, and ought frequently to shift his company.

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

When a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name.