The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the lurch.

All duties are matters of conscience, with this restriction that a superior obligation suspends the force of an inferior one.

Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad masters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes.

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

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

Some people are all quality; you would think they are made up of nothing but title and genealogy. The stamp of dignity defaces in them the very character of humanity and transports them to such a degree of haughtiness that they reckon it below themselves to exercise either good nature or good manners.

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