Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.

One principal object of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men, our superiors, our equals, and those below us.

When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him.

Brutes find out where their talents lie; a bear will not attempt to fly.

One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.

A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.

It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.