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.

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

Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves.

Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances; but by the character of their lives and conversations, and by their works.

Money does all things,--for it gives and it takes away; it makes honest men and knaves, fools and philosophers; and so forward, mutatis mutandis, to the end of the chapter.

The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power.

A plodding diligence brings us sooner to our journey's end than a fluttering way of advancing by starts.