Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

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.

No man of honor, as the word is usually understood, did ever pretend that his honor obliged him to be chaste or temperate, to pay his creditors, to be useful to his country, to do good to mankind, to endeavor to be wise or learned, to regard his word, his promise, or his oath.

If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.

It is in disputes as in armies, where the weaker side sets up false lights, and makes a great noise, to make the enemy believe them more numerous and strong than they really are.

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.

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.