No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.

Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.

The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume, but a good stomach excels them all; to which nothing contributes more than industry and temperance.

No wind favors he who has no destined port.

Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.

And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who judge a man by his bow, his bearing and his boots.

From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.