Let every foot have its own shoe.

The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from Custom.

We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.

The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.

Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.

I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.

Most men are rich in borrowed sufficiency: a man may very well say a good thing, give a good answer, cite a good sentence, without at all seeing the force of either the one or the other.