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

Ingratitude is amongst them a capital crime, as we read it to have been in some other countries: for they reason thus; that whoever makes ill-returns to his benefactor, must needs be a common enemy to the rest of the mankind, from where he has received no obligations and therefore such man is not fit to live.

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.

I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.

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.