Gold--the picklock that never fails.

Conscience and wealth are not always neighbors.

I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours.

The over curious are not over wise.

Tis the only discipline we are born for; all studies else are but as circular lines, and death the center where they all must meet.

To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.

He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.