When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm.

Riches are apt to betray a man into arrogance.

A jealous man is very quick in his application: he knows how to find a double edge in an invective, and to draw a satire on himself out of a panegyrick on another.

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

Honor's a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.

There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.