Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.

Come, agree, the law's costly.

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.

God hath intended our passions to prevail over reason.

I remember it was with extreme difficulty that I could bring my master to understand the meaning of the word opinion, or how a point could be disputable; because reason taught us to affirm or deny only where we are certain; and beyond our knowledge we cannot do either.

That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.

Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination.