No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.

Rhetoric in serious discourses is like the flowers in corn; pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap profit from it.

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork.

How often do we contradict the right rules of reason in the whole course of our lives! Reason itself is true and just, but the reason of every particular man is weak and wavering, perpetually swayed and turned by his interests, his passions, and his vices.