There are braying men in the world, as well as braying asses; for what is loud and senseless talking any other than away of braying?

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.

Men indulge those opinions and practices that favor their pretensions.

To be longing for this thing to-day and for that thing to-morrow; to change likings for loathings, and to stand wishing and hankering at a venture--how is it possible for any man to be at rest in this fluctuant, wandering humor and opinion?

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

A body may well lay too little as too much stress upon a dream; but the less he heed them the better.

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.