No wind favors he who has no destined port.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention.

The laws keep up their credit, not by being just, but because they are laws; 'tis the mystic foundation of their authority; they have no other, and it well answers their purpose. They are often made by fools; still oftener by men who, out of hatred to equality, fail in equity; but always by men, vain and irresolute authors.

Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterward forms itself into laws.

Men ... are not agreed about any one thing, not even that heaven is over our heads.

Few men have been admired of their familiars.