The common people do not judge of vice or virtue by morality or immorality, so much as by the stamp that is set upon it by men of figure.

It is one of the vexatious mortifications of a studious man to have his thoughts disordered by a tedious visit.

Ingratitude is abhorred by God and man.

He that serves God for Money, will serve the Devil for better Wages.

Of all injustice, that is the greatest which goes under the name of law, and of all sorts of tyranny the forcing of the letter of the law against the equity, is the most insupportable.

Pretences go a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment.

Wickedness may prosper for awhile, but in the long run, he that sets all the knaves at work will pay them.