Partiality in a parent is unlucky; for fondlings are in danger to be made fools.

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.

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

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

So long as we stand in need of a benefit, there is nothing dearer to us; nor anything cheaper when we have received it.

Ingratitude is abhorred by God and man.

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