I have known some men possessed of good qualities which were very serviceable to others, but useless to themselves; like a sun-dial on the front of a house, to inform the neighbours and passengers, but not the owner within.

A secret is seldom safe in more than one breast.

So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect happiness with less.

The preaching of divines helps to preserve well-inclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or ever reclaims the vicious.

Men always grow vicious before they become unbelievers.

I shall be like that tree-I shall die at the top.

It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.